Register today for new Windows Azure AppFabric training!  Join this MSDN webcast training on February 7 , 2011 at 11:00 AM PST .   It's more than just calling a REST service that makes an application work; it's identity management, security, and reliability that make the cake.  In this webcast, we look at how to secure a REST Service, what you can do to connect services together, and how to defeat evil firewalls and nasty network address translations (NATs). Presenters...

It’s not too late, you can still get in. Please see my previous post for complete details. Hope to see you there! Blog Post by: Brian Loesgen

Today (12/13/2010) the Windows Azure platform AppFabric has updated the IP Ranges on which the AppFabric nodes are hosted. If your firewall restricts outbound traffic, you will need to perform the additional step of opening your outbound TCP Ports and IP Addresses for these nodes. Please see the 1/28/2010 “ Additional Data Centers for Windows Azure platform AppFabric ” posted which was updated today to include the new set of IP Addresses. Blog Post by: netsqlservicesteam

Apparently, I was lucky to be in the first batch of beta participants for the 3 new Azure beta programs: I received the confirmation for the extra small instances rather fast Wednesday evening, I received confirmation for the Azure Connect beta program.  You can read my post on that here: Azure Connect: VPN as a Service, a quick introduction . And later that night, I received confirmation for the VM Role beta program. This post will demonstrate how to upload a virtual hard disk to the Azure...

Autostart is a really cool feature of Windows Server AppFabric. Recently I was asked about how you can do some kind of process initialization in your code with Autostart (which the documentation implies that you can do). This led to a discussion with...( read more ) Blog Post by: The .NET Endpoint : AppFabric