Windows Azure Connect Team Blog

On 10/28/2012, the current CA certificate used by Windows Azure Connect endpoint software will expire. To continue to use Windows Azure Connect after this date, Connect endpoint software on your Windows Azure roles and on-premises machines must be upgraded...

Windows Azure Connect CTP is now open to everyone. In the past, you needed to request CTP access and be approved before you could use Connect. Starting today, no approval is needed. You can use Windows Azure Connect as long as you have a Windows Azure...

As part of the Windows Azure Management Portal update , a new release of the Windows Azure Connect ( which is in CTP ) endpoint software (1.0.0952.2) is available. In addition to bug fixes, the Connect endpoint is localized into 11 languages, with a language...

The recent released HPC Pack 2008 R2 SP2 is focused on providing customers with a great experience when expanding their on-premises clusters to Windows Azure. One of new features include a tuned MPI stack for the Windows Azure network, support for Windows...

We’ve heard from some customers that initial connections to on-premise SQL servers using Windows Azure Connect sometimes takes a long time if the Azure machines are domain-joined. On investigating the issue, we’ve found out that all current...

If you have deployed Windows Azure Connect endpoint before, you know that the endpoint will be required to present an activation token (which you can get from Windows Azure Management Portal) for activation. This activation token can be specified in the...

Throughout Windows Azure Connect CTP, many customers have asked for Windows Azure Connect relay presence in geographic locations outside US. Today we are very happy to announce that we have added new relays in Europe and Asia, with the launch of Windows...

We have found an issue with the new Windows Azure SDK 1.4 refresh which causes Windows Azure Connect endpoints to fail to deploy on Windows Azure Roles built using this SDK release. We have since fixed the issue and updated the Web Platform Installer...

Windows Azure and Windows Azure Connect are like chocolate and peanut butter – awesome together, but pretty good on their own as well. As many blogs (e.g. Maarten's blog and Adam's blog ) have pointed out, you can use Windows Azure Connect to create...

Installing Windows Azure Connect endpoint software is a one-click process – you get the install link from the Windows Azure portal and launch it to start the install. No questions are asked during installation except accepting the EULA. Pretty simple...

We showed you how to domain join Windows Azure roles to on-premises Active Directory in an earlier post . Once the Azure roles are domain joined, it is easy to enable a very common use case – application pool uses domain credential to access SQL...

We are pleased to announce that the first CTP Refresh for Windows Azure Connect is now live. Here are some of the enhancements included in this release: · Co-administrators of a Windows Azure subscription can now manage Windows Azure Connect...

Once Windows Azure VMs are connected with your local machines using Connect (see this blog if you are new to Connect), there are many interesting use cases you can enable. As we mentioned in an earlier blog , application connectivity in Connect is...

Windows Azure Connect supports domain joining Windows Azure role instances (i.e. the Virtual Machines on which your role runs) to an on-premises Active Directory. This opens up many scenarios such as logging in to Windows Azure role instances using domain...

Windows Azure Connect (previously known as Project codename Sydney) is a new feature that enables Windows Azure users to setup secure, IP-level network connectivity between their Windows Azure services and on-premises resources. Windows Azure Connect...