Text of the post here . I didn’t mention it yet since I am still getting it readied up, but I am in the process of moving this blog to my own domain; which is why for some time you’ll see some posts by reference instead of by value details on a future post

If you guys had a chance of seeing the Windows Azure AD session at //BUILD, or more recently at the P&P Symposium , you already know that the previews of ASP.NET Tools Fall update included a feature to easily configure a Web application to use Windows Azure AD; it is what added the “Enable...

Writing this blog post or dowloading Adera Episode 3 ? Why do I even ask, I already know the answer :-) Today I want to tell about one of the patterns behind Windows Azure Active Directory. I call it the multitenant STS pattern, which is a pretty descriptive name IMO and seem to have caught up internally...

It’s official: I am getting old. I was ab-so-lu-te-ly convinced I already blogged about this, but after the nth time I got asked about this I came to find the link to the post only to find pneumatic vacuum in its place. No joy on the draft folder either… oh well, this won’t take too long to (re?)write...

Welcome to a new installment of the “addressing the most common questions about Windows Azure AD development” series! This time I am going to tackle one question that I know is very pressing for many of you guys: How do I get role and group membership claims for users signing in via Windows Azure AD...

Folks, this is big. Check out the announcement that went out yesterday on the Windows Azure blog. In fact, I am going to quote it here in its entirety! Here goes: Identity Management and Access Control are anchors for virtually all critical processes, collaboration and transactions. To that end, it was...

Thanks to the improvements introduced in the latest refresh of the developer preview of Windows Azure Active Directory, we are finally able to support a scenario you often asked for: provisioning a Windows Azure Active Directory tenant as an identity provider in an ACS namespace. In this post I am...

Hi all! I am briefly emerging from my yearly time off to notify you that my good friends Nick & Nate just published the latest episode of the Cloud Cover show, featuring your furry PM (I waited until the how’s recording to shave my goatee!) chatting with the hosts about all things Windows Azure AD...

Hi all! I am typing this post from Shiphol, Amsterdam’s airport, where I am waiting to fly back to Seattle after a super-intense 2 days at TechEd Europe. As it is by now tradition for Microsoft’s big events, the video recording of the breakout sessions are available on Channel9 within 24 hours from the...

  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 the new developer center you’ll eventually land...

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 be part of it You can take a look at the details...

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 my DPE friends quietly released last week (and...

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”. We’ve been working with the appropriate Windows...

  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 ”. Here there’s a bit of brain dump (not...

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 shows, so strangely similar to what we have shown...

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 at Ping Identity , is an event that I greatly enjoyed...

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 about the session being for developers, as...

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 way to the latest hands-on labs , books and whitepapers...

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 is demonstrating Fabrikam Fiber, a really cool scenario...

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 in the quickstart video in which I walk through...

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...

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! In fact we wrote it much earlier, but December is...

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 TechDays Belgium and Nederland’s DevDays . TechDays...

  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 and web identity providers, easy integration with...

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...