Information wants to be free!
Introduction One of the exciting new possibilites in Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is the ability to create Virtual Machine images (VHD files) locally and upload them to your own image store in Windows Azure, and use them as the basis for new VMs. In this article I will demonstrate the process of …
Continue reading “How to upload an image VHD to Windows Azure using CSUpload”
Microsoft announced today that they will offer two features in Windows Azure Active Directory free of charge; Access Control and Core Directory and Authentication. Access Control provides centralized authentication and authorization by integrating with consumer identity providers such as Facebook or by using an on-premises deployment of the Windows Server Active Directory service. With Access …
Continue reading “More free stuff in Windows Azure Active Directory”
This just in: “Microsoft releases Windows Azure Architecture Guides! ITPros go wild!” Read all about it here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35764 A 9 MB Word-document; you gotta love it! Morgan
Recently the ability to add co-administrators to you Windows Azure portal was migrated from the old Silverlight portal to the new HTML 5 portal. Happy times! You can only add valid Microsoft Accounts or accounts from Windows Azure Active Directory as co-administrators. Office 365 uses Windows Azure Active Directory to if you have an account …
Continue reading “Which accounts can I assign as Windows Azure co-administrators?”
Introduction Together with the launch of Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) this summer, Microsoft also introduced a way for customers to connect their on-premise networks with Windows Azure using site-to-site VPN. The service responsibel for this feature is called Windows Azure Gateway. It uses IPSec to establish a site-to-site VPN tunnel between your …
Get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=8396 Morgan
My last post provided a list of all Microsoft server products supported on Hyper-V (and other hypervisor platforms covered by Microsoft’s certification program). Today I bring you the list of which Microsoft Server products are supported in Windows Azure Virtual Machines: Microsoft server software support for Windows Azure Virtual Machines: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2721672 Quite shorter than the …
Continue reading “Microsoft Server software supported by Windows Azure Virtual Machines”
For all of you living in Norway who are interested in learning more about Windows Azure; you can sign up for one of the four free Windows Azure Training Camps I will give at the Microsoft offices in Oslo. We will do one training camp on the first Wednesday of each month for the rest …