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Brand New ACS Walkthrough on the New Windows Azure Developer Center

Vibro.NET — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:48:25 GMT

By now, I am sure, you already heard about the flurry of improvements that swept the Azure Land. If you didn’t, please take a moment to go through Bob’s post here : socks will be blown, the Windows Azure team did an *amazing* job. If you explore...(read more)

Identity Is Your Passion? We Are Hiring!

Vibro.NET — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:53:22 GMT

We have a number of open positions for developers and testers in the identity team. We are building something pretty awesome, which of course I can’t (yet) talk about, but if you are a regular reader of this blog I can tell you this: you *will* want to...(read more)

BlobShare Sample: ACS-Protected File Sharing

Vibro.NET — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:54:38 GMT

Weather is not that good this Sunday afternoon, and the wife warned me already yesterday that today she was going to catch up with the AI class ; hence, I think I am going to break the blog-silence and spend some time describing BlobShare , a little jewel...(read more)

TechEd 2011微软中国技术大会：下周与您相约

Vibro.NET — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:43:40 GMT

亲爱的中国读者，我很高兴地宣布今年我也将会出席在北京的 TechEd 技术会议！我将会在10月13日星期四演讲几个话题；其中的一个话题跟我在几周前的//Build会议上展示的比较相似，另外一个话题将会是基于 claims 身份架构的深入浅出。不过我来北京最重要的原因其实是见到你们！我想向你们学习一切有关如何处理你们应用程序身份的问题，这样我才能够把你们的要求带回雷蒙德。我将会有空出席于 TechEd 会场星期三（12日）以及星期五（14日）的会议，如果您感兴趣，请跟我联系吧。...(read more)

Using ACS in Metro Style Applications

Vibro.NET — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:20:00 GMT

I am sure that many of you, amazed by the fantastic news about the Windows Developer Preview capabilities, wondered if it will be possible to take advantage of ACS even from Metro Style applications. The answer is “yes, absolutely”. We’ve...(read more)

Guess what?

Vibro.NET — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 06:45:09 GMT

…and that’s as much as I can say for now Read More......(read more)

Hands-on lab: Windows Azure Marketplace for Applications

Vibro.NET — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 07:51:12 GMT

For the series “ things I was working on before moving from DPE to the product team ”. Today Wade’s gang released an update to the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit containing a new lab, “ Introduction to the Windows Azure Marketplace for Applications...(read more)

A Digression on ACS and Rules

Vibro.NET — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:12:00 GMT

As you know, ACS offers a simple-yet-powerful rule engine which you can use for processing incoming claims and keep out of your application a considerable chunk of logic: claims set normalization, occasional policy decision point, and so on. The primitive...(read more)

Using the Windows Azure Access Control Service in iOS Applications

Vibro.NET — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:02:00 GMT

Nossir, there is nothing wrong with my blog the screenshot above is indeed taken from a Mac desktop, and the one you see on the center is actually an instance of the iPhone emulator. What you should notice, however, is the list of Identity Providers it...(read more)

New in ACS: Portal in Multiple Languages, a New Rule Type… and Wave Bye-Bye to Quotas

Vibro.NET — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:00:00 GMT

Big news in ACSland today! There few new key features that - I am sure – many of you will welcome with a big smile. As usual, for the full scoop take a look at the announcement and the release notes ; here I’ll just give you few highlights...(read more)

Updated Windows Azure Access Control Service Cmdlets: Modules, Continuation and Backup/Restore!

Vibro.NET — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:00:35 GMT

As promised yesterday, here there’s one of the deliverables I mentioned. About one month ago we published the first release of a set of PowerShell cmdlets for ACS : wrappers for the ACS management APIs, which allow you to easily script tasks such as wiping...(read more)

Ch-ch-ch-changes

Vibro.NET — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 06:55:52 GMT

[ Dave , forgive me for lifting your headline it’s just too good a fit for the occasion] As anticipated during a recent CloudCover episode , tomorrow it’s going to be my first day as Principal Program Manager in the identity product team . I’ll be looking...(read more)

Cloud Identity Summit: Come to Our Workshop!

Vibro.NET — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 08:24:34 GMT

Photo: Skinned Mink In just about three weeks the who’s who of identity in the cloud is going to converge to Keystone, in the beautiful Rocky Mountains , to talk each other into identity-induced stupor. The Cloud Identity Summit , hosted by our friends...(read more)

Powerscripting Podcast: ACS, Windows Azure and… PowerShell

Vibro.NET — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:27:33 GMT

Last week I had the pleasure of being guest on the PowerScripting podcast , THE show about PowerShell. That’s actually pretty uncharacteristic for me, considering that at every session I deliver at TechEd I spend the first few minutes on colorful disclaimers...(read more)

Edit and Apply New WIF’s Config Settings in Your Windows Azure WebRole… Without Redeploying!

Vibro.NET — Tue, 31 May 2011 08:30:35 GMT

In short: in this post I will show you how you can leverage the OnStart event of a WebRole to enable changing the WIF config settings even after deployment. Since the very first time Hervey and I made the first foray in Windows Azure with WIF, all the...(read more)