On March 27, 2012 I’ll be presenting two sessions at the Share Cloud conference in Dallas, TX. Abstracts for the sessions are below:

AZR 102 – You Can Do What in Windows Azure?!
You already know you can run your .NET based web sites, services, and applications on Windows Azure, but this only scratches the surface of what you can do. Encoding video with Expression Encoder, hosting adaptive streaming video in blob storage, hosting multiple web sites, enabling remote desktop, running php, node.js, and MongoDB, creating a VPN and more are all possible with the Windows Azure platform. In this demo intensive session I’ll show you how to do amazing things to unleash the power of Azure.

AZR 105 – Securing Azure Hosted Services, the Easy Way
Authentication and authorization are key components of most line of business applications. However, identity management is not a trivial task, especially when it comes to extending identity management to the cloud. In this session we’ll look at how you can use the Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS) to simplify identity management for applications running on the Windows Azure platform. We’ll start by covering the basics of identity management and ACS. From there we’ll look at how to do create an ACS namespace, integrate identity providers and relying parties, create token transformation rules to provide consistent claims, establish a trust between ACS and your ASP.NET application, test the integration, and automate the management of your ACS namespaces.

You can find out more about the conference and register here.

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On March 21, 2012 I will be speaking at the RBA Tech Spotlight event. The focus of my talk is on how to use the Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS) to offload identity management from your applications. Here’s a synopsis of what I’ll be covering:

Authentication and authorization are key components of most line of business applications. However, identity management is not a trivial task, especially when it comes to integrating third party systems in the cloud.

Some of the challenges faced in this scenario include:

• Redirecting unauthenticated requests to the required identity provider
• Validating and parsing incoming token issued by the identity providers
• Implementing authorization checks
• Transforming tokens by adding, removing, or changing the claims types and values
• Using configuration rather than code to do all of the above

In this session we’ll look at how you can use the Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS) to tackle these challenges. We’ll start by covering the basics of identity management and ACS. From there we’ll look at how to do the following with ACS:

• Create an ACS namespace
• Integrate identity providers
• Integrate relying parties
• Create token transformation rules
• Establish a trust between ACS and your ASP.NET application
• Test the integration between ACS and your ASP.NET application
• Automate the management of the ACS namespace

You can get more info and register for the event here.

I hope to see you there.

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Last week I presented a session at Cloud Fest in Denver entitled “Securing Azure Hosted Services, The Easy Way”. Here’s an abstract of the session:

Authentication and authorization are key components of most line of business applications. However, identity management is not a trivial task, especially when it comes to extending identity management to the cloud. In this session we’ll look at how you can use the Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS) to simplify identity management for applications running on the Windows Azure platform. We’ll start by covering the basics of identity management and ACS. From there we’ll look at how to do create an ACS namespace, integrate identity providers and relying parties, create token transformation rules to provide consistent claims, establish a trust between ACS and your ASP.NET application, test the integration, and automate the management of your ACS namespaces.

If you’re interested in grabbing the slides from the session you can get them in pdf format here.

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