Even while we are here at BUILD we are working hard to make deploying and managing your Windows Azure applications simpler. We have made some significant improvements to the Windows Azure Platform PowerShell Cmdlets and we are proud to announce we are releasing them today on CodePlex: http://wappowershell...

I wrote an example of how you can use PowerShell to automate attaching adplus.exe to all instances of a role in your Windows Azure deployment. This can be EXTREMELY handy for tracking down random crashes that are just difficult to figure out through logging/instrumentation alone. This is definitely not...

An updated release of Visual Studio Tools for Windows Azure have been released. You can download them here though the Web Platform Installer . New in this release: - Profile applications running in Windows Azure. - Create ASP.Net MVC3 Web Roles. - Manage multiple service configurations in...

Interview with Principal Technical Lead Clemens Vasters and Principal Development Manager Murali Krishnaprasad (MK) regarding the May 2011 CTP release of Windows Azure AppFabric. We discuss new technologies such as Topics, Queues, Subscriptions and how this relates to doing async development in the...

I just made a quick follow up post on my primary blog regarding starting a Windows Service from the Run() method of an Azure role . If you set the service to manual and start it using the ServiceController class the service "should" fall within guest firewall's rules and allow communication over your...