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Single-sign-on between on-premise apps, Windows Azure apps and Office 365...
A lot of people don’t realise there will be 2 very interesting features in Office 365 which makes connecting the dots with your on-premise environment and Windows Azure easy. The 2 features are...
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Video Screencast: Complete setup details for federated identity access from...
How to set up IIS, ADFS 2.0, the Federation Config Tool and Office 365 Dirsync. The video starts with federated access and its setup. Shows how an existing user can use their AD credentials to log in...
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Whiteboard video: How ADFS and the Microsoft Federation Gateway work together...
Another “whiteboard video” that gives a quick overview of the flows of data and comes in as a handy reference to my previous video which showed how to set it all up when you want to federate your...
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Office 365 federated access for home workers
If you are a home worker, sat on the Internet outside of your corporate network (VPNs excepted), it’s very likely your organisation’s ADFS 2.0 server will be sat behind a mass of firewall technology...
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Online Talk: Security integration with the cloud using Active Directory...
I’ll be covering how to set up ADFS 2.0 for authenticating to Windows Azure apps and Office 365. The talk is basically in 2 sections – integration with Windows Azure and integration with Office 365. So...
View ArticleDocument everything you want to know about your Azure IaaS VMs in one line of...
Mark Renoden, one of my colleagues from Microsoft Australia/New Zealand has come up with this great single line of powershell that spits out everything you want to know about your VMs … Get-AzureVM |...
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Provision a dev workstation in 6 minutes and $0.00
A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft announced that Visual Studio would be a free development tool. A special version, called the Community Edition (Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition) which is roughly...
View Article“Cartoony” Video of Azure AD Admin Units
I just published a video I made on to Channel 9 describing the major features of Azure AD Administrative Units as part of the slew of stuff that was released today. It’s in the “cartoony” style which...
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Confusion with Azure Cloud Service SHA1 and SHA256 Certificates
This came up on a camp I ran yesterday. Somebody noticed in Visual Studio, that the algorithm used for the certificate thumbprint is SHA1. There isn’t an option to change it to SHA256. And all recent...
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Azure Exam Prep – Fault Domains and Update Domains
I’ve booked a couple of exams. The Azure Infrastructure Exam (533) on 15th May. and the Dev exam (532) on 29th May. I thought I’d just write a few articles about stuff I’ve found out between now and...
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Azure Exam Prep – Virtual Networks
Continuing the theme of exam prep, I thought I’d write a little about Azure Virtual Networks, or VNets. If you see any of the “martetecture” material on the Internet, you’d rapidly come to the...
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Azure Web Sites/Web Apps and SSL
I just had a rash of questions about SSL and Azure Web SItes/Web Apps (just for clarity, Azure Web SItes was renamed to Azure Web Apps a few weeks ago). I’ve been looking for an article or post to send...
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Warnings sent to customers when Azure is about to be updated
I sometimes get customers asking me about the warnings they’ll get when updates are rolled out across Azure. Well – at the bottom of this post is an example email sent to me. Notice the emphasis placed...
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Geek’s T-Shirt
I really like the T-Shirt we use as swag at conferences for signing up to various programmes. This was a suggestion from a Twitter competition the Visual Studio team ran a little while ago. I’m sorry...
View ArticleExposing Servers/Services to the Internet when they are in an Azure VPN
When you know this it’s really simple but I’ve actually had a couple of customers raise this same query this week. Coincidence? They said – I’ve done some reading and I can see how you can set up a...
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