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 …

The first production version of the windows Azure caching service and a new production version of the Access Control service have been released. The following link provides the necessary information …

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 …

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 …

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 …