[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] We are combining all Windows Azure platform related content into one place: the Windows Azure Platform Team Blog at www.WindowsAzureBlog.com . This will be the new destination for all product releases, resources, tools and news around the Windows...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] In the Windows Azure AppFabric May 2011 CTP, we released enhancements to Service Bus including the new message-oriented middleware features around Queues and Topics. More details regarding these features can be found here: Introducing the Windows...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] An update to the Windows Azure AppFabric SDK is available for download. The updated SDK introduces fixes to a few bugs related to the Caching service. You can find more details on the bugs it addresses here . If you are not experiencing any of...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] Today (6/10/2010) the Windows Azure AppFabric has updated the IP ranges on which the AppFabric nodes are hosted. If your firewall restricts outbound traffic, you will need to perform the additional step of opening your outbound TCP ports and IP addresses...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] Last week at the TechEd North America conference we made some exciting announcements regarding the Windows Azure AppFabric May CTP and the upcoming June CTP . Following are several resource that can help you learn more about these announcements...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] As a fraud prevention measure, we have recently implemented a verification process for newly purchased Windows Azure platform accounts. When a new customer first logs on to the Windows Azure platform developer portal, the customer must provide us...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] As announced at TechEd North America we have released PowerShell cmdlets which wrap the management API of Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control service. Read about this in the blog post by Vittorio Bertocci . This is a very useful addition...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] As promised, we have released new videos as part of our Windows Azure AppFabric Learning Series available on CodePlex. The new videos cover the new capabilities that enable advanced pub/sub messaging in Service Bus which have been released as CTP...