If you attended the [Black Marble Architecture Event](http://www.blackmarble.co.uk/events.aspx?event=Architecture Forum in the North 4) yesterday you would have seen a number of talks around Azure and the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit was mentioned a number of times. The latest update to the training kit is here: …

AppFabric Microsoft have announced two new Azure AppFabric CTPs. May 2011 CTP will include Service bus enhancements including A more comprehensive pub/sub messaging Integration with the Access Control Service V2 Queues based upon a new messaging infrastructure backed by a replicated, durable store. See here for more …

When deploying an Access Control Service enabled web application from my development environment to Windows Azure I got the following error: “Unable to find assembly ‘Microsoft.IdentityModel, Version=3.5.0.0. . .” This had worked well when running in the development fabric on my machine so it was strange that it failed …

I’ve been developing a web application that adds rules to the access control service when a user registers with my website. This was working well using the ACS in AppFabricLabs. When I ported across to ACS V2 in the live environment I kept getting an exception thrown whenever I tried to retrieve information via the …

If you are an MSDN subscriber (Ultimate or Premium) you now get more Windows Azure resources. Professional subscribers are now also included in the promotion. See here for more details. If you have already taken up this offer and you are an MSDN Premium subscriber then you will automatically be upgraded to the MSDN …

Thanks for attending the Azure Jumpstart and Accelerator events in Dublin and Belfast (also the Galway Live Meeting). Here are the list of links from my presentations: Azure HOL (August labs = VS2008, November Labs = VS2010) http://bit.ly/d16e3M (Update: 7 Jan 2011 : Looks like this link does not give the 2008 option …