Following on from my previous blog on “Creating your own identity provider …” The following changes can be made to add in your own claims. Firstly in the App_DataCustomSecurityTokenService.cs file of your identity provider web site I changed the following code 1outputIdentity.Claims.Add( new Claim( …

A question I regularly get asked is whether there is any support in Azure for preventing Denial of Service (DOS) attacks or at least reducing the impact of the DOS attack. In a white paper written by Microsoft called “Security Best Practices For Developing Windows Azure Applications“ in June 2010 the following …

Microsoft released on Thursday the latest CTP for Windows Azure AppFabric. Details of the release can be found here, in the AppFabric Team blog and in Wade Wegner’s blog The CTP contains changes to the Caching service and the AppFabric portal is now in Silverlight. The changes are as follows: New Silverlight-based LABS …

When using the following code from a worker role the trace information shows that there are one worker role instance and zero web role instances 1public override void Run() 2{ 3 while (true) 4 { 5 Thread.Sleep(10000); 6 Trace.WriteLine(string.Format("WorkerRole Instances {0}", 7 …

The Windows Azure Training Kit January update is available at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsazure/wazplatformtrainingcourse.aspx The January 2011 update of the training kit includes the following updates: [New demo script] Windows Azure Connect [New demo script] Web and Worker Role Enhancements [New demo …

Moving to Windows Azure is not as difficult as you might think. Using a basic MVC 2.0 web application created in Visual Studio 2010, the Azure tools within Visual Studio enable you to migrate the web side really easily. Load your MVC 2.0 application into Visual Studio and right click on the solution in Solution …

I suddenly started to get a CommunicationObjectFaultedException after I checked my azure code in to TFS I could get it working by editing the web.config file manually, but it didn’t seem to matter what I actually changed!! It was the act of editing the web.config file that made it writable and it could therefore be …

During my Azure talks in Ireland we were discussing issues with migrating SQL to SQL Azure. At PDC 2010 in Redmond there was a good talk about migrating TFS to Windows Azure and covers the issues they found. It details well the SQL Server to SQL Azure issues and discusses how they solved them. Here is a link to the …

During one of my Azure presentation I was asked whether we could fix the ip address of an azure role so that we can use the ip address to access some external service that uses the ip address to verify the calling party. I didn’t think that there was a way to do this but after talking with Simon Davies at Microsoft he …

Whilst doing an access control service demo I was asked whether you could wire in your own existing authentication mechanisms as customers did not want to have to redo their authentication/registration mechanisms to use Live ID, Google, Yahoo! etc. The answer to this was yes but I had never done it so this was a good …