Microsoft Product Use Rights (PUR) document update; great news for Windows Azure and hosters

What is Product use Rights (PUR)? from microsoft.com: “When you purchase a software license through a Microsoft Volume Licensing program, the terms and conditions for how you can use the software are defined in the Volume Licensing Product Use Rights (PUR) document, Product List document, and program agreement. The PUR is updated quarterly.” The change …

Quickly stop and start your Windows Azure lab

Introduction I needed  way to easily stop and start my different lab setups in Windows Azure. I don’t want to keep running, and pay for, a set of VMs I use maybe once a month. So here is a PowerShell script to stop and start a set of Azure VMs. One important dimension here is …

NIC 2014 Slide deck

Here is my slide deck from the Nordic Infrastructure Conference (NIC) 2014. My talk was called Modern authentication for the Cloud Era and covered claims based authentication and some common scenarios, OAuth and OpenID Connect. Thanks to everyone who attended my session. Hope to see you there next year! http://www.slideshare.net/MorganSimonsen/nic-2014-modern-authentication-for-the-cloud-era