Welcome to the last installment of the “Fun with FabrikamShipping SaaS” series. The “fun” blogs are meant to help you walking through the demo; once we are done with that, I’ll finally start to talk about what makes the demo tick: architecture, code and all those nice things. The walkthrough I am discussing...

I finally found (read: made) the time to get back to the “ Fun with FabrikamShipping SaaS ” series. As in the first installment (where I provided a “script” for going through the creation and use of a small business edition instance) here I will walk you through the onboarding and use of a new Enterprise...

Today the .NET Services team released the first CTP that reflects the changes announced back in September : you can read about it in their team blog and in Justin’s blog and experiment with the service here . You know, it’s kind of a big deal! The power of the claims-based approach is now within reach...

UPDATE : the guide here has long been superceded by hands-on labs (specifically this one ) and whitepapers on the topic. Please use those instead. ========================================== Federating with customer and partners, SSO using existing company identities, authentication externalization...

  As promised last week , here there’s the video of my other session at the Belgian TechDays . This session was part of the Architecture track, hence I took a mildly different, more abstract approach: I position Cloud computing as a trend (storytelling the famous parallel between last century’s...

After the packed schedule at EIC in Munich , and the frantic beta2 launch activities at teched this week , I have few relatively quiet hours in my office in Redmond before setting sails to the IIW this Sunday. While the eye of the storm lasts, I wanted to spend few more words on detailing what we have...

March came and went, bringing us a new CTP of the .NET Services SDK and a lot of news for Windows Azure & SQL Services. Today we released an updated version of the Azure Services Training Kit and one updated version of the Azure Services Management Tools . The March CTP of the .NET Services SDK contains...

  Developing secure applications and providing a hosting service often provide seemingly contrasting requirements. In order to secure communications you take advantage of protected resources, such as private keys; but when you offer a hosting service for multiple tenants, you abstract away the access...

Here we are again. I am just back from Belgium’s TechDays , and I can still savor the nice feeling you get from talking in front of a very interested audience :-) I’m really glad to see that both the cloud and claims based identity are enjoying the attention they deserve! I have been asked to share the...

  Alright, at this point it’s clear: the only moment in which I have time to blog seriously is when I am on some long flight. And guess what, that’s exactly what I am scheduled to do next Sunday! I have the honor & privilege to present at the 2009 edition of the TechDays in Belgium , hence this...

Between travels and internal conferences I ended up neglecting my poor blog for 3+ weeks; a lot of interesting things happened in the meanwhile, and I hope I’ll manage to catch up in the next days. For the time being, here there’s a quick newsflash for you: the Azure Services Evangelism Team , of which...

Tomorrow morning I have my flight to Beijing, where I'll spend Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday spreading some Azure & Identity love. Wednesday night I have a redeye to Singapore where I'll do some more identity work and hopefully meet some old friends, like the mighty SG AE Linda: she was so nice...

Happy Western-new year! Hope you enjoyed your holidays, and that you're back to work recharged & ready to authenticate/authorize everything in sight ;-) I have a long piece I wrote back in December on my flights to Italy, but that's pretty long and somewhat philosophical: after the joys of yesterday...

[Dear loyal readers, be warned: this post will contain some identity, but it is more about "pure" architecture & cloud services] On a flight Honolulu-Seattle; vacation is over, and I'm back to sharing with you my wild thoughts (ok, not ALL of my wild thoughts :-)). Have you noticed how people...

  Few weeks ago the good guys at the IDPeople magazine interviewed me on the topic of identity & cloud computing: you can access the text online or the pdf here (requires free registration). During IDWorld they also recorded a brief video about my session on the same theme , but I don't know...

It seems it barely started, and TechEd EMEA 2008 is almost done already. Identity is very well represented in this edition. Geneva has 2 booths in the ATE area, which experienced really a lot of traffic: you still have time tomorrow for taking advantage of the experts there (Sam, Sidd, Shiung, Tariq...

Immediately after IDWorld I will fly to Malmö, Sweden, where I will present a session "Identity & Cloud Services" for the Architecture track of Øredev 2008 . Øredev is a big developer conference, one of the most important for the Scandinavian countries: this is definitely...

  PDC has come and gone, and Microsoft's identity landscape has changed. New products emerged, services appeared or underwent profound transformations: but the remarkable thing is that all elements, none excluded, are part of a single,company-wide, consistent strategy that aims at putting the user...