Recently I worked on WCF Federation with ACS v2. The developer who approached me was trying to authenticate the WCF service (on-premise/azure hosted) using Azure Appfabric Access Control (ACS ). He wanted to use an Identity provider (Windows LiveID or...

The exercise below details the steps to secure azure with SSL really well. Exercise 4: Securing Windows Azure with SSL http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/gg271302 In the exercise above, it uses self-signed certificates. Everything should work smoothly...

Azure Diagnostics custom logs are not moving to the storage account. I've configured the diagnostics as follows for custom logs. Code in OnStart method: // Get the default initial configuration for DiagnosticMonitor. DiagnosticMonitorConfiguration...

ASP.NET application services are built-in Web services that provide access to features such as forms authentication, roles, and profile properties. These services are part of a service-oriented architecture (SOA), in which an application consists of one...

I ran into an interesting issue today while configuring custom log directory in Azure Diagnostics. The role was aborting with the following code in OnStart method. public override bool OnStart() { // Get the default initial configuration for DiagnosticMonitor...

This is a very frequently asked question, not just in the Azure world! How to restrict unwanted IPs to access your site in Azure environment? There are two parts to it, as listed below: 1. Static IP Restriction - where you know the list of IPs...

Symptom: Unable to host application using ZEND framwork and PHP. The role gets started but runtime issues occur. Here's one of the errors logged in the application event log & browser indicating PHP prcess in crashing. Log Name: Application...

WCF Tracing in on-premise servers - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733025.aspx WCF Tracing in on-premise servers with intermittent failures – Enable Circular tracing: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa395205.aspx WCF Tracing...