By now, I am sure, you already heard about the flurry of improvements that swept the Azure Land. If you didn’t, please take a moment to go through Bob’s post here : socks will be blown, the Windows Azure team did an *amazing* job. If you explore...

We have a number of open positions for developers and testers in the identity team. We are building something pretty awesome, which of course I can’t (yet) talk about, but if you are a regular reader of this blog I can tell you this: you *will* want to...

Weather is not that good this Sunday afternoon, and the wife warned me already yesterday that today she was going to catch up with the AI class ; hence, I think I am going to break the blog-silence and spend some time describing BlobShare , a little jewel...

亲爱的中国读者， 我很高兴地宣布今年我也将会出席在北京的 TechEd 技术会议！ 我将会在10月13日星期四演讲几个话题；其中的一个话题跟我在几周前的//Build会议上展示的比较相似，另外一个话题将会是基于 claims 身份架构的深入浅出。 不过我来北京最重要的原因其实是见到你们！我想向你们学习一切有关如何处理你们应用程序身份的问题，这样我才能够把你们的要求带回雷蒙德。我将会有空出席于 TechEd 会场星期三（12日）以及星期五（14日）的会议，如果您感兴趣，请跟我联系吧...

I am sure that many of you, amazed by the fantastic news about the Windows Developer Preview capabilities, wondered if it will be possible to take advantage of ACS even from Metro Style applications. The answer is “yes, absolutely”. ...

…and that’s as much as I can say for now

  For the series “ things I was working on before moving from DPE to the product team ”. Today Wade’s gang released an update to the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit containing a new lab, “ Introduction to the Windows Azure Marketplace for Applications...

As you know, ACS offers a simple-yet-powerful rule engine which you can use for processing incoming claims and keep out of your application a considerable chunk of logic: claims set normalization, occasional policy decision point, and so on. The primitive...

Nossir, there is nothing wrong with my blog the screenshot above is indeed taken from a Mac desktop, and the one you see on the center is actually an instance of the iPhone emulator. What you should notice, however, is the list of Identity Providers it...

Big news in ACSland today! There few new key features that - I am sure – many of you will welcome with a big smile. As usual, for the full scoop take a look at the announcement and the release notes ; here I’ll just give you few highlights...

As promised yesterday, here there’s one of the deliverables I mentioned. About one month ago we published the first release of a set of PowerShell cmdlets for ACS : wrappers for the ACS management APIs, which allow you to easily script tasks such as wiping...

[ Dave , forgive me for lifting your headline it’s just too good a fit for the occasion] As anticipated during a recent CloudCover episode , tomorrow it’s going to be my first day as Principal Program Manager in the identity product team . I’ll be looking...

Photo: Skinned Mink In just about three weeks the who’s who of identity in the cloud is going to converge to Keystone, in the beautiful Rocky Mountains , to talk each other into identity-induced stupor. The Cloud Identity Summit , hosted by our friends...

Last week I had the pleasure of being guest on the PowerScripting podcast , THE show about PowerShell. That’s actually pretty uncharacteristic for me, considering that at every session I deliver at TechEd I spend the first few minutes on colorful disclaimers...

In short: in this post I will show you how you can leverage the OnStart event of a WebRole to enable changing the WIF config settings even after deployment. Since the very first time Hervey and I made the first foray in Windows Azure with WIF, all the...

If you went through the hands on lab for using ACS on your Windows Phone 7 application , you already know that saving the user the hassle to re-authenticate all the times entails a security tradeoff. Here there’s what I wrote in the lab’s...

Yesterday we released the Beta of the Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 , with a boatload of new awesome features (I’ll write about one of those in the next post). Beta versions are likely to have some known issues, and this one is no exception. In fact...

ACS offers you a variety of identity provider you can integrate with. Many of you will be familiar with the list shown by the management portal at the beginning of the add new identity provider wizard. Some of you may also know that ACS integrates with...

Long story short: we are releasing on Codeplex a set of PowerShell cmdlets which wrap the management API of the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service. This is hopefully for the joy of our IT admin friends who want to add ACS to their arsenal...

Friendly faces everywhere / Humble folks without temptation . More seriously, this is one of those rare occasions where you could meet with the guy who wrote (or spec’ed) the exact feature you are interested into… and they are all here for answering your...

If I’d have a dollar for every time a customer or partner asked me if they could use WIF for consuming the SAML2.0 protocol… ok, I would not exactly buy a villa a Portofino, but let’s just say that this is one of the most requested features since WIF...

Just few hours ago Wade announced the new release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone , with support for ACS . You can already see the bits in action from the stage of the TechEd keynote – nonetheless – from where a very elegant Drew Robbins...

As promised last week , today Wade released the 1.2 version of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 . And again as promised, this version has full support for ACS! Using the new feature is super straightforward: you can see that by yourself...

Yesterday I posted about my sessions at TechEd and the book signing event . My friends at O’Reilly, though, graciously pointed out that I didn’t mention the juiciest fact: The first 25 people who will show up at the book signing will receive a free copy...

These days practically everybody I meet on campus is preparing to fly to Atlanta for TechEd, with the notable exception of Steve Marx (it seems I may be losing our bet after all). Atlanta holds a special meaning for me. Back in 2004 I won the Circle...