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Comodo SSL Certificate Breach’s Potential Impact on Security Token Services and their Identity Providers

Recently, Iranian crackers used a username and password to make certificate requests from the Comodo Certificate Authority. These requests were successful and certificates were issued for 9 domains which are published on the Comodo Fraud Incident Report Read More...
Posted Friday, March 25, 2011 3:00 PM by pmehner | 0 Comments

Programmatically Adding Google or Yahoo as an Identity Provider to the Windows Azure AppFabric Labs v2.0 Access Control Service

This blog post assumes that the reader knows the basics of Identity Providers and Security Token Services. Its purpose is to illustrate how to programmatically add Google or Yahoo as an Identity Provider because there isn’t much information available Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 22, 2011 2:26 AM by pmehner | 0 Comments

Scaling Up Or Scaling Out In The Cloud

Windows Azure provides us the ability to scale our application up by specifying how many CPU cores we want in our service instances, or to scale out by specifying how many single-core instances we require. Both strategies can be used to accomplish our Read More...
Posted Sunday, December 19, 2010 12:53 AM by pmehner | 1 Comments

Installing Windows Azure SDK v1.3 Breaks Support for Visual Studio 2008

Be aware that installing the November 2010 Windows Azure SDK v1.3 will break support for cloud projects running under Visual Studio 2008. To the best of my knowledge this was not widely announced (in fact, I learned about this fact during installation Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 18, 2010 10:54 PM by pmehner | 0 Comments

Using The AsyncEnumerator To Improve Throughput of I/O-Bound Windows Azure Worker Roles

The Windows Azure Worker Role is a perfect place to put code that you want to run continuously in the background to process work as it becomes available. The information presented here would also be useful in web roles as well. If you’re writing cloud Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 15, 2010 2:24 PM by pmehner | 0 Comments

Updated FAQ for SQL Azure

Microsoft published an updated FAQ (May 3, 2010) for SQL Azure, available here The FAQ is very thorough and is a “must read” for any organization planning a relational database migration or new cloud application “This paper provides an architectural overview Read More...
Posted Monday, May 10, 2010 2:25 PM by pmehner | 0 Comments

Improving Windows Azure Storage Throughput Using the Content Delivery Network

Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) caches your Windows Azure Data Storage blobs at strategically placed locations around the world (18 at the time of this blog post). The purpose of the CDN is to provide maximum bandwidth for delivery of content Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 04, 2010 10:46 PM by pmehner | 1 Comments

Learning Windows Azure platform Resources

I’ve assembled a short list of training materials and utilities that are helpful in learning the Windows Azure platform Windows Azure SDK v1.1 samples http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=dba6a576-468d-4ef6-877e-b14e3c865d3a&displaylang=en Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 20, 2010 2:11 AM by pmehner | 2 Comments

Understanding Windows Azure platform AppFabric Access Control Service Resources

Before we can begin using the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS) to decouple our applications from security concerns and enable claims-based identities we need to understand the Resources contained in the Service Namespace and what role Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 06, 2010 2:11 PM by pmehner | 0 Comments

Managing Windows Azure Deployments with Windows Azure Service Management CmdLets

Before you begin your Windows Azure development experience in earnest, you should be aware that leaving development and test instances deployed and running in the cloud can be expensive. Be aware that y ou will be billed for deployed service instances, Read More...
Posted Friday, March 26, 2010 5:31 PM by pmehner | 1 Comments

How To Get Diagnostic Data From Services Running In The Windows Azure Cloud

Each instance of Windows Azure Service Role runs its own monitor to gather its own instance specific diagnostic data. The problem that immediately presents itself is knowing what exactly is being collected, where the data is being saved, and how to retrieve Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:48 PM by pmehner | 2 Comments

Idempotency for Windows Azure Message Queues

Idempotency is the mathematical term used to describe a system that produces the same result when a formula or procedure is applied numerous times against the same target. In software systems, this translates to an ability to perform an operation more Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 28, 2010 10:58 PM by pmehner | 3 Comments

Windows Communication Foundation Data Services (Astoria) – The Stuff They Should Have Told You Before You Started

Entity Framework derived types support inheritance and relationships, just as you’d expect from any Object Relational Mapper tool (ORM) Windows Communication Foundation Data Services (Astoria) throws an exception if your derived entities have relationships. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 10, 2010 4:13 PM by pmehner | 1 Comments

Migrating Polling Duplex Binding Element from Silverlight v2.0 to v3.0 for WCF Services In The Cloud Code Samples

When running the WCF / Windows Azure samples (see my previous blog entry) you may get an error indicating that the Polling Duplex Binding Element cannot be loaded if you have Silverlight v3.0 installed (The type 'System.ServiceModel.Configuration.PollingDuplexElement, Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 25, 2009 12:08 AM by pmehner | 0 Comments

Code Samples for Hosting WCF Services In The Cloud

Code samples demonstrating how to host WCF Services under Windows Azure can be found on the MSDN site at: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wcfazure Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 22, 2009 6:51 PM by pmehner | 0 Comments
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