MSDN geekSpeak : Azure

Next geekSpeak – Wednesday, February 25 – The .NET Access Control Service with Michele Leroux Bustamante

glengordon — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:26:00 GMT

Wow, what a title! This Wednesday, join one of our favorite geekSpeak guests Michele Leroux Bustamante as she enlightens us about the .NET Access Control Service.

The .NET Access Control Service is part of the Azure Services Platform. It allows applications to delegate authentication with built-in support for a variety of credential types, supplies claims-transformation for dependent applications, is a scalable on-demand solution, and removes the need to provide dedicated development and IT resources for an on-site STS that can scale. Michele will show us how developers can build federated security scenarios leveraging the Access Control Service – your Security Token Service hosted in the cloud.

Register for this geekSpeak here: The .NET Access Control Service with Michele Leroux Bustamante. Note that the title on the registration page might not be correct, but we are talking about .NET Access Control Service in this geekSpeak.

About Our Guest:

Michèle Leroux Bustamante is Chief Architect of IDesign Inc., Microsoft Regional Director for San Diego, and a Microsoft MVP for Connected Systems. At IDesign Michele provides training, mentoring and high-end architecture consulting services focusing on scalable and secure architecture design for .NET applications and services, interoperability, federated security scenarios, and globalization architecture. Her product focus includes WCF, CardSpace, Geneva, Azure and Oslo. Michele participates in Software Design Reviews for products in the Microsoft roadmap, including WCF, Oslo, CardSpace and other security-focused products. During the Beta 1 phase Michele participated in prototyping elements of the CardSpace technology for the product team. She is a member of the International .NET Speakers Association (INETA), a frequent conference presenter, conference chair for SD West, and is frequently published in several major technology journals. Michele is also on the board of directors for IASA (International Association of Software Architects), and a Program Advisor and instructor for UCSD Extension. Her latest book is Learning WCF (O’Reilly 2007/2008) – see her book blog here: www.thatindigogirl.com. Reach her at mlb@idesign.net, or visit www.idesign.net and her main blog at www.dasblonde.net.

Next geekSpeak - Wed, Jan 14 – SQL Data Services with James Johnson

glengordon — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:45:41 GMT

Tune into geekSpeak this Wednesday for a chance to ask your SQL Data Services questions of James Johnson. Come on, we know you’ve got questions about this exciting new cloud/database thingy. So register at http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032400473 and get them answered live. Lynn and Lindsay are your hosts for this one.

About our guest:

James Johnson

James is the Founder and President of the Inland Empire .NET User’s Group (www.iedotnetug.org). He has a great affinity for all things web, data, user experience, and building community. His passion is getting people access to experts, experiences and technologies, they never thought they would have access to, or could achieve. James is a frequent blogger at www.duringlunch.com, and is constantly working on the next big thing.

2009 geekSpeaks kick off this week

glengordon — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:35:18 GMT

We have two great geekSpeaks this week.

On Wednesday, January 7, join us for MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: REST and the Windows Azure Services Platform with Adnan Masood (Level 200) where you’ll hear about building RESTful services and hosting them in the Azure cloud.

Then on Thursday January 8, catch our rescheduled geekSpeak from December - MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services with John Papa (Level 200). John will share great tips for hooking up these two hot technologies.

As always, we are looking for your questions live on these geekSpeaks to drive the conversation.

See the rest of January’s geekSpeaks at http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/geekspeak.aspx?tab=webcasts