A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control - 2nd Edition has been released by Microsoft Pattern & Practices team. It has been extensively updated to include new features and changes to the underlying technologies; and extends the coverage to encompass Windows Azure® Access Control Service...

A couple of days ago new enhancements to Service Bus as part of the Windows Azure AppFabric CTP May release were announced along with the upcoming release of the AppFabric Developer Tools and Application Manager as part of the Windows Azure AppFabric CTP June release. These new capabilities consist of...

I recently reviewed a great blog post on the topic of Composite Applications on top of the Windows Azure Platform . It explains briefly the concepts around the Composition Model , based on .NET Framework, that enables to define the components of your Windows Azure application along with their characteristics...

Today after some time I had a chance to play around with the new functionality of the Windows Azure Platform. One thing that interested me a lot was how easy it is actually to deploy an application in a hybrid scenario , which means that a part of the application stays on-premise (in a local environment...

Well (in short ) AppFabric ACS just added a bunch of new features that are available one the AppFabric Labs portal , where you can check out the CTP. To understand properly what ACS is all about, you should read about Claims-Based access control. New features include the following: Integrates with Windows...