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...