Part One of this series covered the project itself and the overall template structure. Part Two went through how I deploy the Domain Controller in depth. Part Three talks about deploying my ADFS server and in this final part I will show you how to configure the WAP server that faces the outside world. The Template The …

In part one of this series of posts I talked about the project driving my creation of these Azure Resource Templates, the structure of the template and what resource I was deploying. This post will go through the deployment and configuration of the first VM which will become my domain controller and certificate server. …

Part Two | Part Three | Part Four Over the past month or two I’ve been creating an Azure Resource Template to deploy and environment which, previously, we’d created old-style PowerShell scripts to deploy. In theory, the Resource Template approach would make the deployment quicker, easier to trigger from tooling like …

This article aims to talk about Windows Store Notifications and the Windows Azure Notifications Hub and it will attempt to collate the various articles in a single place to help you build notifications into your app. In order for you to get an understanding of Windows notifications look at the following article …

After a good night in Hereford at the Smart Devs User Group and my presentation at DDDNorth Here are the links from my presentation and some from questions asked: Gadgeteer: http://www.netmf.com/gadgeteer/ Signal-R: http://www.asp.net/signalr/ Web API: http://www.asp.net/web-api The Signal-R chat example can be found …

I’ve just finished presenting my talk on “Successfully Adopting the Cloud: TfGM Case Study”and there were a couple of questions that I said I would clarify.

1. What are the limits for the numbers of subscriptions per service bus topic. the answer is 2000. further details can be found …

Whilst working on a project in which we we using the Topics on Windows Azure Service Bus, we noticed that our subscription queues (when viewed from the Windows Azure Management portal) didn’t seem to be empty even though our subscription queue processing code was working correctly. On closer inspection we found that …

Black Marble are participating in the Microsoft MVP Cloud OS Community Week. During the week commencing 9th September there will be daily events held at Cardinal Place, Victoria, London. Richard and I along with other MVPs will be participating in the event on Friday 13th Sept which is titled “Enables Modern Business …

Scott Guthrie made an announcement on his blog about changes to the way Windows Azure is priced http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2013/06/03/windows-azure-announcing-major-improvements-for-dev-test-in-the-cloud.aspx The main two changes that will affect most people are Per minute Billing No charge for turned off …

I’ve been playing with Gadgeteer (http://www.netmf.com/gadgeteer/) for a while now and I am a big fan of the simple way we can build embedded hardware applications with high functionality. We have a proof of concept device that includes a Colour touch screen, RFID reader and an Ethernet connections. This device is …