(Note: The following instructions are for information purpose only and correspond to Apache 2.2 on Windows. It should be pretty straight forward to translate them to LINUX and other UNIX variants. The guidance shown here has to be thoroughly tested in...

I recently was asked a question on the difference between entity service and a task service and how they differ from the service consumer and the provider perspective. Here is my definition of a task service: "A task service encapsulates a business process...

Windows Azure being a Platform as a Service (PaaS), abstracts away the OS, storage, networking and shares these massive pools of physical resources across virtual instances of applications running on Azure infrastructure. Windows Azure platform defines...

Delivering business processing logic through RIA (Rich Internet Application) format is very attractive to architects, developers and operators of IT shops. RIA combines the richness of the desktop application with the ease of deployment, ubiquity and...

Introduction This post is inspired by Tomasz’s Hosting Node Applications on IIS write up that focused on the benefits of running Node.js on Windows server through iisnode. In this post, I wanted to focus on giving it a Windows Azure color and list the...

Technorati Tags: Sharepoint 2010 , Development Environment , Windows 7 I was trying to set up a Sharepoint 2010 development environment (server not foundation) and all my web searches pointed to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869.aspx ...

I was helping one of the customers on a proof of concept (POC) for an InfoPath based Office Business Application (OBA) and came across a feature request to display InfoPath from inline with the email message in Outlook. Providing a consistent user experience...

iStore (The Information Store) is developing the petroleum industry's first public cloud offering on Microsoft Azure Services platform. The independent software vendor is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner who blazed trails with a SharePoint 2007 based...

  There has been lot of talk on the definition of Cloud Computing and the fundamental differences between public and private clouds in the architect and decision maker community. The definition I like for Cloud Computing is: “On-demand utility computing...

  I was impressed with the MAT tool that encapsulates all the information one has to be aware of, before attempting the application migration to Windows Azure platform. The tool addresses migration considerations including app server, database, integration...

In this post we will look at one of the architectural aspects of the enterprise class applications - application partitioning. Application partitioning is done for variety of reasons including the following: To optimize download times To chunk the application...

  Previously Sync Framework required  a Windows  machine with Sync runtime installed on the client side. The Sync Framework 4.0 now leverages a remote sync service and hence any client that speak HTTP and OData can build occasionally connected ...

When network administrators shutdown your internet access due to a bot or rootkit infection and suggest you some internet based tools, you are in a paradoxical situation. I am sure you already experienced this if you have kids in college   Here is...

At the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference today, Microsoft announced IIS Smooth Streaming through Windows Azure CDN (Content Delivery Network) infrastructure. Previously Windows Azure CDN only supported structured and unstructured file...

I have heard intense debates on SaaS and SOA with no winners at the end. Some argue that SaaS and SOA are the same and some try to convince others that SaaS is different from SOA. I am one of the guilty parties who participated in the above debates one...

Here is a list of CMS systems that are available on Windows Azure from various ISVs: Ektron CMS for .NET on Windows Azure: http://www.ektron.com/Solutions/Technology-and-features/Features-and-Tools/Ektron-Azure-Edition/ Telerik Sitefinity: http://www...

Here are a list of products, in no particular order, which will help improve the quality of end user experience for Azure hosted applications. This list is an organic aggregation of tribal knowledge and is not a definitive one. If you have any suggestions...

Linux deployment on Windows Azure requires PEM or DER encoded x509 public key at the provisioning time to enable authenticated remote login through SSH. This  post is complimentary to http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/linux/how-to-guides/ssh...

Many of you may be thinking of deploying SharePoint farms on Windows Azure Virtual Machines… here are three hands-on-labs that will speed up your learning on this subject:  1. Active Directory Set up: https://github.com/WindowsAzure-TrainingKit/HOL...

I just come across this Outback case study which demonstrates the typical use of cloud computing platform in enabling quick time-to-market of a marketing campaign and wanted to share it with broader audience. Outback combined Facebook with Windows Azure...

Considering Silverlight being in its 3rd rev, end users often come across scenarios where a web browser need to render pages composed from applications compiled against different Silverlight versions. As only one version of the Silverlight plug-in can...

Distributed in-memory cache from Microsoft at last! Velocity is the code name for this distributed in-memory cache with the following features: Distributed in-memory cache A cluster of cache hosts provides fault tolerance Supports optimistic as well pessimistic...

Thanks to the hype generated by the analyst community and followed by the vendors, every customer Enterprise Architect has gotten a directive from the above to create an SOA strategy. Often the directive is not a result of the realization of the need...

Microsoft just announced Windows Azure Traffic Manager CTP (Community Technology Preview) during the keynote at MIX 11. The Traffic Manager allows the deployment of the same application to topologically dispersed data centers enabling the distribution...

At WPC 2010, Microsoft announced a Windows Azure based private cloud for enterprises: https://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2010/jul10/07-12CloudComputingPR.mspx . The Windows Azure platform appliance is targeted towards companies which buy 1000 servers...