Edit and Apply New WIF’s Config Settings in Your Windows Azure WebRole… Without Redeploying!

In short: in this post I will show you how you can leverage the OnStart event of a WebRole to enable changing the WIF config settings even after deployment. Since the very first time Hervey and I made the first foray in Windows Azure with WIF, all the way to the latest hands-on…

Adding a Custom OpenID Provider to ACS… with JUST ONE LINE of PowerShell Code

Adding a Custom OpenID Provider to ACS… with JUST ONE LINE of PowerShell Code

ACS offers you a variety of identity provider you can integrate with. Many of you will be familiar with the list shown by the management portal at the beginning of the add new identity provider wizard. Some of you may also know that ACS integrates with Yahoo! and Google using OpenID, however from…

Announcing: Sample ACS Cmdlets for the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service

Announcing: Sample ACS Cmdlets for the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service

Long story short: we are releasing on Codeplex a set of PowerShell cmdlets which wrap the management API of the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service. This is hopefully for the joy of our IT admin friends who want to add ACS to their arsenal, but I bet that this will make many…

Live from TechEd Atlanta: Drew Shows Windows Azure, Windows Phone 7–Uses Identity to Glue Them

Live from TechEd Atlanta: Drew Shows Windows Azure, Windows Phone 7–Uses Identity to Glue Them

Just few hours ago Wade announced the new release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone, with support for ACS. You can already see the bits in action from the stage of the TechEd keynote – nonetheless – from where a very elegant Drew Robbins is demonstrating Fabrikam Fiber, a really cool…

Bring Your Active Directory in Your Pockets with ACS, OAuth 2.0 and the New Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7

Bring Your Active Directory in Your Pockets with ACS, OAuth 2.0 and the New Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7

As promised last week, today Wade released the 1.2 version of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7. And again as promised, this version has full support for ACS! Using the new feature is super straightforward: you can see that by yourself in the quickstart video in which I walk through the…

25 Free Copies of “Programming Windows Identity Foundation” at Teched

Yesterday I posted about my sessions at TechEd and the book signing event. My friends at O’Reilly, though, graciously pointed out that I didn’t mention the juiciest fact: The first 25 people who will show up at the book signing will receive a free copy of Programming Windows Identity Foundation! That is really…