Windows Azure Remote Desktop Connectivity for PHP Applications

re: Windows Azure Remote Desktop Connectivity for PHP Applications

Houman — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:29:34 GMT

@Brian,

Many thanks for the great link. It is indeed a fantastic idea.

Since you are familiar with AzurePHP I was wondering if we coudl brainstorm on this. When using AzurePHP scaffolding, you won't have any Visual Studio to reference the PKCS12ProtectedConfigurationProvider.dll and set it to Copy Local = true so that it shows up on the Azure side. Instead you are bound to "scaffolder run ..." and "scaffolder package" that do the compiling and packaging for you. How could this file be included in the package in order to decrypt the connectionString on Azure side?

re: Windows Azure Remote Desktop Connectivity for PHP Applications

Brian Swan - MSFT — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:45:29 GMT

@Houman-

Great question. I don't know of a good reason for encrypting RDP passwords but not DB passwords. However, you CAN encrypt DB passwords...more information here: social.technet.microsoft.com/.../sql-azure-connection-security.aspx.

-Brian

re: Windows Azure Remote Desktop Connectivity for PHP Applications

Houman — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:58:11 GMT

Hi Brian,

Many Thanks for the excellent blog. I am just wondering why the RDP password has to be encrypted, but in the same file the Database password is in plain text? Is there a way to also encrypt the database password? or why is RDP given such privilege but not to DB password?