I have been longing to publish this post for a looong time Today we are announcing the next batch of preview features for Windows Azure Active Directory. You can find most details in Alex’ announcement here, but in a nutshell: We now have endpoints capable of handling the OAuth2 code grant flow…

In the various announcements and walkthroughs you had the chance to experience the changes in Windows Azure AD’s product surface. In this (hopefully not too long, it’s midnight already) post I am going to touch on some of the deeper changes that took place beneath the surface. Albeit less evident at first, some…

I recently created a new Windows Azure subscription trial, going though the Organizational route. However, I made a mistake: I accepted the default name assigned to the directory, which happens to be the combination of the first and last name of the admin user I created.  Having that directory named as one user…

Yesterday Windows Azure Active Directory became generally available. As part of the launch we provided three tutorials that not only show you how to tackle important scenarios end to end, but they are also full of useful tricks that can be reused even in different contexts. As I did yesterday for Walkthrough #1:…