May 2009 - Posts

Changes to Alerts, Analytics, and Windows Live ID Integration by Windows Azure

Today we’re rolling out a set of changes in the Azure Services Developer Portal to alerts, analytics, and Windows Live ID integration.  The following changes will go live tonight: Alerts A number of CTP participants told us they wanted greater opportunities...

New Windows Azure Storage Features by Extemporaneous Mumblings

Some new features related to blob and table storage were announced on the forum today.  The key features announced were: Transactions support for table operations (batching) Copy Blob API (self explanatory) Updated GetBlockList API now returns both...

The Id Element weekly: Caleb Baker on Geneva Server and SAML2.0 Interoperability by Vibro.NET

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New Windows Azure Storage Features – May 2009 by Windows Azure

Today we released a new set of features for Windows Azure Storage. The main features in this release are: Entity Group Transactions for Windows Azure Table – It is now possible to perform a transaction across entities stored within the same table and...

Now Available: May 2009 CTP of the Windows Azure Tools and SDK by Cloud Computing Tools Team

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (includes SDK). If the release is still propagating, try the Direct Link . New for the May 2009 CTP: Support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Update for Visual Studio 2008 Improved integration with the Development...

May CTP of Windows Azure SDK Released, Including Visual Studio 2010 Support by Windows Azure

Today we released new versions of the Windows Azure SDK and the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio.  Both are available now on http://dev.windowsazure.com .  The major news is support for the recently released Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. What...

Microsoft Architecture Day: Roadmap to Identity by Matias Woloski's Blog

Today Microsoft hosted the Architecture Day. This is an interesting event where architects from different companies come together to talk about different topics (similar to the Regional Architect Forum). In this opportunity I proposed to do a presentation...

Scaling Out with SQL Data Services by SQL Data Services Team Blog

Hi Folks, Here is another video from TechEd. In this one, Rick Negrin and I talk about scaling out your database with SQL Data Services and the performance gains you will see. The video can be seen here . Enjoy!!! Dave Read More...

The Role of a DBA with SQL Data Services by SQL Data Services Team Blog

Hi Folks, Here is another Tech-Ed Online video . In this one, Rick and Zhongwei talk about the responsibilities of a DBA with SDS. I hope you enjoy, Dave Read More...

Scenario: Token Exchange when you can’t change the client by Matias Woloski's Blog

Couple of months ago Ezequiel posted a summary of a very interesting article published on the Identity issue of the Architecture Journal. This article talked about different patterns on the federated identity world. Last week we had an interesting requirement...

Create and Deploy your Windows Azure Service in 5 Steps by Extemporaneous Mumblings

Step 1:  Obtaining a token Sign up through http://dev.windowsazure.com to get a token for the service.  Turnaround is pretty quick, so you should have one in about a day or so.  If you don't see it in a day, make sure you check your...

The Id Element weekly: Geneva Server, Windows CardSpace Geneva, Information Cards and PHP Interoperability by Vibro.NET

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Provisioning an SDS Database by SQL Data Services Team Blog

The SDS team was extremely busy last week at TechEd North America in L.A.. We presented 3 sessions, recorded 4 TechEd online videos and spent a great deal of time speaking with customers. Here is a video we did on what the provisioning experience will...

How To: decrypt a GenericXmlSecurityToken with Geneva Beta 2 by Matias Woloski's Blog

This post had a lot of visits so I have updated it to work with Geneva Beta 2 1: public static ClaimsIdentityCollection ToClaimsIdentityCollection(this GenericXmlSecurityToken originalToken, TrustVersion trustVersion, X509Certificate2 signature, X509Certificate2...

Netflix on Media Center by Extemporaneous Mumblings

Finally!  I have been using some great plugins for VMC that gave me Netflix streaming support.  However, for the last few weeks all of my computers have been unable to use Netflix streaming because of DRM issues with the older (non-Silverlight...
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