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 …

Last week I was trying to demonstrate accessing Azure Table Storage after I upgraded to the Azure SDK 1.3. During the demo I kept getting the exception “SetConfigurationSettingPublisher needs to be called before FromConfigurationSetting can be used” even though I had written this code and my demos all worked fine …

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 …