Windows Azure Customer Feedback

Microsoft has setup a customer feedback site for Windows Azure a few months ago.  It has a voting feature where you can vote for new features you would like to see in Windows Azure.

Here are the top 9 ideas I liked:

• Make it less expensive to run my very small service on Windows Azure
• Continue...

Departmental Application Migration to Azure – Part 4 – ADFS with Azure web app

This is part of a series of blogs.  See the preceding blog entries:

• Departmental Application Migration to Azure – Part 1
• Departmental Application Migration to Azure – Part 2 – ADFS Installation
• Departmental Application Migration to Azure – Part 3 – ADFS with on-premise web app

As mentioned before on this...

Doing a fetch-attributes on a container using SAS

I’ve bumped into a funny Windows Azure Storage API feature lately.

I was trying to read / write the meta data of a blob-container using a Shared Access Signature (SAS) and got a 404 Resource Not Found.

Well, after flipping my algorithm upside down quite a few times I considered that was by designed.

It is confirmed, it is by...

Shared Access Signature

I’ve been spinning by head around to understand how to use this Azure Storage concept for quite a while, so I’ve decided to share my findings.

The most useful web resource I found was this blog entry.  Here I’m gona give a less API-driven approach, which is faster as long as you know which containers / blobs you want...

Dev, Staging & Production in Windows Azure

I finally got an answer about the different environments in Windows Azure on the Cloud Cover Channel 9 show.  Apparently my Fabio Avatar was quite popular and helped to be selected!

I thought I would blog out their nuggets of wisdom as they are quite good guidance and I haven’t seen it anywhere on the web.