Ah, what a day! The news on the Windows Azure AD features in the Windows Azure portal were on fire today if you missed them, check this out before going any further. The phone-based multifactor authentication preview is probably my favorite new feature. For details, check out this walkthrough; but in a nutshell, …

Here there’s the first of three super quick visual guides about playing with the new Windows Azure Active Directory features in the Windows Azure portal. Please make sure you read Alex’s announcement and watch Abhishek’s video first! I’ll try to keep the word count down, and let the screenshots speak! Hopefully this will…

Here there’s the second of three super quick visual guides about playing with the new Windows Azure Active Directory features in the Windows Azure portal. Please make sure you read Alex’s announcement and watch Abhishek’s video first! Also, you should read the first post of the series first. I’ll try to keep the…

Here there’s the last of three super quick visual guides about playing with the new Windows Azure Active Directory features in the Windows Azure portal. Please make sure you read Alex’s announcement and watch Abhishek’s video first! Also, you should read the first two posts of the series first. I’ll try to keep…

Important news this morning! If you took advantage of the organizational sign-up for Windows Azure, where you can access your Windows Azure subscription using your directory accounts, this morning you are in for a fantastic treat. In a nutshell, from now on you can use the active directory area of the Windows Azure…