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Welcome to the Fabric Controller blog
Hi and welcome to my new blog on the Windows Azure platform. My name is Sandrino Di Mattia and I’m a Technical Consultant at RealDolmen. The last few years I’ve been active in the community mainly by...
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The Belgian eID in Windows Azure – Part 1: Authentication and Identification...
If you follow my other blog you might have noticed that I’m really into the Belgian eID. Needless to say I had to look at how we can use the Belgian eID in Windows Azure. In this series I’ll show you...
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Installing LogMeIn on your Windows Azure roles
LogMeIn… I’m assuming everyone knows this great suite of tools. The tools and subscriptions offered by LogMeIn provide you with everything you need regarding remote access and support. What I love the...
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Upgrading to the Windows Azure 1.7 SDK
The Windows Azure 1.7 SDK has been out for a little less than 3 months, and with the RTM release of Visual Studio 2012 it might be a good opportunity to upgrade your existing applications to the new...
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Controlling your instances in the Windows Azure Compute Emulator
This is a follow-up post for a question I answered on StackOverflow. There might be times where you would want to control the instances in the emulator as if you were really running in Windows Azure....
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ASP.NET Universal Providers and the Windows Azure Service Configuration
Since Scott Hanselman introduced the ASP.NET Universal Providers last year we learned that these providers should be used when working with SQL Azure. Version 1.2 of the providers were released just a...
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IIS 8.0 Application Initialization module in a Windows Azure Web Role
Back in 2009 the IIS team announced the beta release of the Application Warm-Up Module as a downloadable extension. Today this module was renamed to Application Initialization andis included in IIS8....
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DictionaryTableEntity: Working with untyped entities in the Table Storage...
About 2 weeks ago Microsoft released the new version of the Windows Azure Storage SDK, version 2.0.0.0. This version introduces a new way to work with Table Storage which is similar to the Java...
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Passive FTP and dynamic ports in IIS8 and Windows Azure Virtual Machines
Today Windows Azure supports up to 150 endpoints which is great for those applications that rely on persistent connections, like an FTP Server. You can run an FTP Server in 2 modes: Active mode: The...
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Adding multiple endpoints to your Windows Azure Virtual Machines by using a...
In order to manage endpoints of a Virtual Machine you have 2 options: use the portal or use Powershell. If you use the portal it’s not so easy to add a list or a range or ports, you would need to add...
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Securing access to your Windows Azure Virtual Machines
A few days ago Alan Smith (Windows Azure MVP) started a discussion about the “Virtual Machine hacking” thread on the MSDN forum and how we could protect our Virtual Machines. Let’s take a look at our...
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NuGet package for creating and querying Table Storage entities in (reverse)...
Windows Azure Table Storage is a great way to store your data: partitions make it easy to scale and it’s very cheap (as opposed to Windows Azure SQL Database). But there are some downsides of choosing...
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Job scheduling in Windows Azure
A few days ago Scott Guthrie announced yet another update to Windows Azure. The great thing about this update is that it adds job scheduler support to Mobile Services. This means you can now create...
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Using the Windows Azure CLI on Windows and from within Visual Studio
Last month Glenn Block announced the new release of azure-cli (version 0.6.9). This release adds lots of new features to the CLI like managing Mobile Services, custom Web Site deployments … Next to the...
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Apply IP address restrictions to your Windows Azure Cloud Services
A few weeks ago I was involved in a discussion about the Staging slot in Cloud Services. The staging slot typically contains the new version of your application which you are testing (and planning to...
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Build your own SQL Server Agent for Windows Azure SQL Database with the...
If you worked with the Windows Azure SQL Database in the past you’ll know that there is no support for SQL Server Agent jobs. According to the official guidelines you should use a SQL Server Agent...
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Manage your subscriptions with the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio
In the last few months the tooling for Windows Azure greatly improved: a new portal, official PowerShell cmdlets, azure-cli, … In this article I would like to focus on the Windows Azure Tools for...
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Apply XDT transforms to your ServiceDefinition.csdef file
The Windows Azure SDK 1.5 was released over a year ago introducing support for multiple Service Configuration files. Ever since this release it has become really easy to manage multiple environments by...
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Browse and use images from the VM Depot in the Windows Azure Portal
A few weeks ago Microsoft announced the release of the VM Depot, a community-driven catalog of VM Images. Deploying a Virtual Machine with an image from the VM Depot was pretty easy: Download/Upload...
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Using Remote Powershell with Windows Azure Virtual Machines
Update: I created a script which makes this a lot easier, you can find it in my next blog post (Script to automatically configuring Remote PowerShell for Windows Azure Virtual Machines on your...
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