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As I announced some time ago, we’ve been working on a few labs that demonstrate interoperability with 3rd party identity components. More specifically: CA SiteMinder 12.0 IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager 6.2 Sun OpenSSO 8.0 The general architecture...

As I wrote in my previous post, different sites in TailSpin have different scalability needs. The public site, where customers complete surveys, would probably have need to scale to a large number of users. The first consequence in the design is the separation...

As you might recall from my the introduction post, Tailspin has essentially 3 sites: the ISV (#1) , the tenants (#2) and the public (3): The usage patterns of these are all very different: #1 would probably have 10’s of users, #2 (hopefully for TailSpin...

Session management is an important consideration for applications deployed to Windows Azure. In essence, the guidelines for “web farms” are all 100% applicable for Windows Azure. Some (most?) people rely on “in memory” session state and then tweak their...

While we wait for the book to be published, we packaged the entire guide to be available online . We are using a very cool tool from our colleagues at ContentMaster which allows us to deliver a richer experience. Many of the diagrams in the guide are...