Simple Azure Blob Storage Performance (upload) testing
Azure Blob Storage Perf Testing Tool This is a simple testing tool using Mocha that provides upload speed testing when modifying the parallelOperationThreadCount setting that is »
Using Multiple Devices for 2-step verification to save time !
2-step verification is becoming more prevalent. This is the process where when you logon to a web site, or application, you might provide something you know »
Federation Metadata generation tool on Github
I get from various folks some requests for updates, information, etc. about this tool, so, I’ve put it up on Github so others can just »
Troubleshooting tool–Azure WebJob TCP Ping
I’ve dropped a quick Visual Studio solution that has a simple Azure WebJob intended to run Continuously that does a Socket open (TCPPing) for a »
Azure Resource Manager–Creating an IaaS VM within a VNET
NOTE: Azure Resource manager is in Preview. Thus, anything posted here may change. However, the approach for identifying what resources are available for update and registered »
Azure Resource Manager – Creating Storage Accounts
NOTE: Azure Resource manager is in Preview. Thus, anything posted here may change. However, the approach for identifying what resources are available updatable, and registered for »
Azure Resource Manager– Creating a Resource Group and a VNET
NOTE: Azure Resource manager is in Preview. Thus, anything posted here may change. However, the approach for identifying what resources are available updatable, and registered for »
Azure Resource Manager – Adding and Assigning Certificates to a Website
Overview This post is going to cover working with Azure Resource Manager using the REST interfaces [1] and specifically the “Microsoft.Web/sites” and “Microsoft.Web/ »
Useful Machine Learning and HDInsight / Hadoop Links Posts and Information
Updates: Initial Post: 2014-11-17 As many ramp up on Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, I wanted to start keeping a succinct list of many of the articles, »
Getting Docker Running on Hyper-V 8.1/ 2012 R2
Running Docker locally on a Windows machine is generally not an issue; unless you've committed to using Hyper-V. Since the Docker install for Windows relies on »
SharePoint 2013 Farm in Less than an Hour–New Azure Portal and Azure Templates
Soon, you’ll be able to author your own templates, but as of today, you can provision an 3 Machine SharePoint 2013 Farm – have it running »
Learn More about Microsoft Codename "Trust Services" - TechNet Articles - Home - TechNet Wiki
Many companies, ISV’s, and solutions have concerns about data in the cloud. With PKI based encryption, Trust Services provides key management for your publisher/ »
Comparison of Windows Azure Storage Queues and Service Bus Queues « Microsoft Technologies Rocks !!!
Nice table comparing Windows Azure Queues vs. Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus – note the comment regarding in WAZ SDK 1.5 Queue message size is now »
Building scalable web applications with Windows Azure (ed. and on premise too!)
Matthew Kerner’s session at BUILD covers many of the patterns and approaches that a well designed and highly scalable solution can do to make the »
How does the Windows Azure Fabric controller do that?
Kevin Williamson has a great post on the overall flow of things from the point of publishing of your package up on the Windows Azure Developer »
CloudNinja - Windows Azure Multi-tenant Sample - Home
So, as one of the OneTAP leads for Windows Azure focusing on the BizSpark folks, I run into many questions regarding HOWTO and in areas of »
Getting the MVC3 assemblies as part of your Windows Azure deployment
There have been several techniques that have been posted on getting the MVC3 reference assemblies deployed as part of your Windows Azure Solution. http://blog.smarx. »
Differences when Running with OutputCache managed module under ASP.NET IIS7.x with Cache-control header
This post is to report some differences when using MVC or IHttpHandlers if you’re attempting to set the Cache-control : max-age or s-maxage value under IIS7. »
Taking advantage of Windows Azure CDN and Dynamic Pages in ASP.NET - Caching content from hosted services
With the updates to Windows Azure CDN announced this week [1] I wanted to help illustrate the capability with a working sample that will serve up »
Running Jetty under Windows Azure Using RoleEntryPoint in a Worker Role
This post is built upon the work of Mario Kosmiskas and David C. Chou’s prior postings – from here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mariok/archive/ »
Azure VS Tools and SDK - systray already running…
If you are getting a message when you start the Compute Emulator “Systray already running…” from within Visual Studio one fix is to check what the »
Visual Studio 2010 Setup Projects and x64 Support
I was taking the Windows Azure CmdLets project and getting it into an MSI just to make it easier to deploy in a nice package. »
Making Web Client requests behave from .NET or in reality misbehave – ignoring Certificate Issues from HttpWebRequest
Many times, especially during development, you could have certificates that are out of date, aren’t singed by any real authority (makecert, etc.), or even don’ »
Tongue in Cheek Geek Humor from the PDC
An old colleague (Biff Gaut) of mine has a great daily newsletter from the PDC. This is certainly targeted for those of us looking for »