This week Steve was at Mobile/Cloud Connections in Vegas presenting on WP7 and Windows Azure. Wade kindly invited me to co-host Cloud Cover for this week , and I happily jumped on the opportunity to shed more light on the new ACS and spread the Sesame...

Oh boy, I am am really getting old. While I was compiling today’s yearly blog roundup I *knew* there was something missing, and then it came to me: somehow I forgot to blog about the article that the amazing Wade and I wrote about ACS back in December...

As it is by now tradition, here there’s my annual checkpoint on blog activities (former years’ digests: ( 2004 , 2005 , 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 ). This is my 514th blog post, which sounds like a pretty unbelievably high pile of blabber… until...

Here there’s the last episode of the “how-to” series on the ACS Extensions for Umbraco , released (among a ton of other things) at the new ACS’ launch last week . The feature described here is my favorite: the power of accepting users without having to...

Welcome to the second installment of the series on the ACS Extensions for Umbraco, part of the big ACS launch wave! This time I am going to assume that you succesfully installed the Extensions on your Umbraco instance, and you want to start accepting...

I am back from sunny Vegas, where we finally announced the RTW of the new ACS , to the less sunny Redmond; but not for long. Next Saturday I’m scheduled to fly back to EU, where I’ll have the honor and privilege to blabber about my favorite topics at...

More unfolding of the tangle of new content announced with the ACS launch. Today I want to highlight the work we’ve been doing for augmenting Umbraco with authentication and authorization capabilities straight out of ACS . We really made an effort to...

After the new content storm of yesterday , here I’ll start to look at some individual pieces. The first one I’d like to feature is the new ACS+WP7 phone , based on the work of Caleb from the ACS team (hear the details from the man himself here ). It’s...

  Last week we shipped a new version of the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control service . and MIX is all a buzz about it! The new ACS includes a plethora of new features that you guys have been asking with enthusiasm: single sign on from business...