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May 2007 - Posts

Interop for the Identity Metasystem

Last week Microsoft announced a bunch of things to improved interoperability around online identity management. This builds on the standards work on over the last three years to allow developers to create solutions to a common identity framework called Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:47 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments
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NIC, NAP Paddy NAC

Microsoft, TCG and Juniper today agreed to work together to ensure customers have interoperable Network Access Control protection for securing network machines. This is another major step forward for security, ensuring that enterprise machines, many of Read More...
Posted Monday, May 21, 2007 9:49 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Top things we did not call Windows Server 2008

Well, with the annoucement this week of Windows Server 2008 as the official name for Windows Server CodeName "Longhorn" ( thank goodness I do not have to call it that again...way too long ) it got me thinking of all the other name posibilities that missed Read More...
Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 7:57 PM by neilhut | 2 Comments

POPFLY

Well the word is out about Microsoft "Popfly". Pretty cool stuff for people wanting to build simple applications to connect with their friends, communities or just for fun using simple mashup constructs which are brought together with JavaScript/Ajax Read More...
Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 7:45 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments
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IIS7 GO Live

I have been getting the question pretty often since we released Beta 3 of Longhorn Server, "I would like to deploy IIS7 in a live environment". When can I do it? The answer in pretty simple. Go to www.iis.net/goLive , fill in a simple form and you can Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 17, 2007 8:09 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Virtually Sad

Its always sad when you have to reduce scope for a product release. Today we revieled that quite a few of the features in the "Viridian" Hypervisor product will not make the initial version. Features such as live migration, hot-add resources such as storage, Read More...
Posted Friday, May 11, 2007 1:59 AM by neilhut | 0 Comments

IIS vs Apache

The debate rolls on. I guess this must be the 11th year since Microsoft shipped its first IIS web platform. I remember installing the first beta version on NT Server 3.5.1 and thinking that this is pretty basic. Things have moved on, on both sides and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 6:40 AM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Securing a Web Service using cardspace and "Orcas"

Vittorio in the team has just completed a tutorial on his blog which walks through 5 very simple steps to create a service in Visual Studio Orcas and then secure it with the CardSpace technology. He then extracts specific claims which could then be used Read More...
Posted Friday, May 04, 2007 4:30 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Patterns for Supporting Information Cards ON Web Sites

For someone who has had to sign onto 3 community sites today, each without any SSL support, each with a different credential and password format, this kind of guidance has not come soon enough in my opinion. This document describes patterns for implementing Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 01, 2007 1:31 AM by neilhut | 0 Comments

VISUAL STUDIO BRANCHING GUIDANCE

What is the right branching strategy for a particular software project? When should I use a label versus a branch? How do you structure your solutions and projects? Brian Keller in the team has been involved in a x-company project to pull together some Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 01, 2007 12:24 AM by neilhut | 0 Comments
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