We are combining a few of our blogs into the new AppFabric Team Blog located at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/appfabric/ . The new blog will be a one place for you to learn about and follow technologies such as: Windows Azure AppFabric, Windows Server AppFabric...

The Windows Azure AppFabric CTP May release is available. We are moving to a new Team Blog available on: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/appfabric . You can read the release announcement on the new blog. Please update your links, email subscriptions...

[Update] In the planned release scheduled for 5/12/2011, we are making sure that customers will have parity between the Access Control and Caching services (currently in production) and the LABS preview environments. As result there will be some impacts...

Due to upgrades and enhancements we are making to Windows Azure AppFabric LABS environment, scheduled for 5/12/2011, users will have NO access to the AppFabric LABS portal and services during the scheduled maintenance downtime. When: START: May 12, 2011...

We have released new videos and accompanying code samples to help you learn and get started with the newly released Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service. These videos and code samples are part of the Windows Azure AppFabric Learning Series available...

Recently, at the MIX conference we announced the release of a new version of the Access Control service and the upcoming release of the Caching service. Today we are excited to announce that the Caching service has been released as a production service...

Today (4/20/2011) the Windows Azure platform AppFabric has updated the IP Ranges on which the AppFabric nodes are hosted. If your firewall restricts outbound traffic, you will need to perform the additional step of opening your outbound TCP Ports and...

Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control April release has been released to production and is now generally available at http://windows.azure.com . The new version of the Access Control service represents a major step forward from the previous production...

Today at the MIX conference we announced the first production release of Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service and a release of a new version of the production Access Control service. These two AppFabric services are particularly appealing and powerful...

Windows Azure AppFabric Caching will be released to production at the end of April 2011. The CTP of the Caching service has been available for trial since October 2010. Windows Azure AppFabric Caching is an explicit, in-memory, distributed caching service...

We are excited to announce that today we released the Windows Azure AppFabric April release that includes a new version of the Access Control service . The new version of the Access Control service includes all the great capabilities and enhancements...

The April 2011 issue of MSDN Magazine features an article on the Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service written by Karandeep Anand from the AppFabric product team, and Wade Wegner our technical evangelist. Read the article to learn what is the Windows...

Today (3/31/2011) the Windows Azure platform AppFabric has updated the IP Ranges on which the AppFabric nodes are hosted. If your firewall restricts outbound traffic, you will need to perform the additional step of opening your outbound TCP Ports and...

Due to upgrades and enhancements we are making to Windows Azure AppFabric, the AppFabric Portal, located at http://appfabric.azure.com , will be locked for updates for a few hours. During that time you will not be able to create, update or delete any...

In the previous posts in this series we covered the challenges that Windows Azure AppFabric is trying to solve , and started discussing the Middleware Services in the post regarding Service Bus and Access Control , the post regarding Caching , and the...

Due to upgrades and enhancements we are making to Windows Azure AppFabric, the AppFabric Portal, located at http://appfabric.azure.com , will be locked for updates for a few hours. During that time you will not be able to create, update or delete any...

Alik Levin, from the Access Control service content and documentation team, has written these great step-by-step instructions on how you can use the service for federated authentication using Windows Live ID and Google accounts in your Windows Azure ASP...

In the previous posts in this series we covered the challenges that Windows Azure AppFabric is trying to solve , and started discussing the Middleware Services in this post regarding Service Bus and Access Control , and this post regarding Caching . In...

Today we released the new and improved Windows Azure AppFabric Silverlight-based portal experience. The new Silverlight-based portal provides the same great experience as the Windows Azure and SQL Azure Silverlight portals. The new Silverlight portal...

In a few days, we’ll be deploying an updated Windows Azure AppFabric portal to correspond to recent changes in our environment . In the interim, users of the AppFabric portal located at http://appfabric.azure.com may experience the following issue...

Today (1/3/2011) the Windows Azure AppFabric has updated the IP Ranges on which the AppFabric nodes are hosted. If your firewall restricts outbound traffic, you will need to perform the additional step of opening your outbound TCP Ports and IP Addresses...

The Windows Azure AppFabric LABS release of Access Control Service received an update today that impacts users who are using ACS management service. For more details, see the ACS release notes on Codeplex . The Windows Azure AppFabric Team

Yesterday during the “Cloud Computing in Retail Breakfast” at the Euroshop Retail Design Conference in Dusseldorf, Germany, Microsoft partner BEDIN Shop Systems made an announcement regarding their retail industry software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions...

Read this blog post by Vittorio Bertocci , one of our Windows Azure AppFabric evangelists, regarding the most recent updates to the Identity Developer Training Kit and the first release of the MSDN-hosted Identity Developer Training Course . If you are...

The next maintenance to the Windows Azure AppFabric LABS environment is scheduled for February 28, 2011 (Monday). Users will have NO access to the AppFabric LABS portal and services during the scheduled maintenance down time. We apologize in advance...