I am wondering if there has been any conversation about WHEN and IF the Identity Framework Experience might move from Preview to GA? I can see it's been at least a year since it was placed in Preview. I'm nervous about building a new solution on it, if it is not going to make it to GA.
Thanks!
Chad
Discussed with Azure Experts. A timeline is not yet known.
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I know this question may sound silly. I would like to selfhost the developer portal. I am concerned about future updates/versions. How do you update to a new version. Does anyone have experience with this?
I assume you already know this documentation:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/developer-portal-self-host
Updating the portal requires to pull and integrate the changes from the github repo into your customized portal code (if you changed it).
I am new to windows azure, and recently working on an implementation suggested by Richard diZerega, on How to implement timer jobs for SharePoint Online.
In this blog Richard suggested to use web jobs. Which is all fine but, I was unsure if its fine to implement it in production, as the feature is in preview.
This feature is still in preview so as CSharpRocks mentioned the support policies are going to be different. Please read this for more information on the support policies for preview features http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/preview-supplemental-terms/
Sure as long that you're aware that preview = beta and that there's no SLA with services in preview.
Microsoft promises to discontinue the old (Silverlight) Management Portal "this summer" so we now have to use the new (HTML 5) portal.
I personally and several people I've talked to find the new portal awful because it doesn't provide as fine control as the old one did. We find it so bad that maybe even consider writing our own tools.
Yes, I'm well aware about cmdlets, Management API, but I'd prefer something with GUI more or less like the old portal.
What other ways are there to manage Azure cloud services that provide GUI and fine control?
Do take a look at Cerebrata tools especially Azure Management Studio: http://www.cerebrata.com.
If you aren't ready for all the features of Azure Management Studio then try the free Blob manipulation tool, Azure Explorer, which is robust and very easy to use:
http://www.cerebrata.com/labs/azure-explorer
(Short video review here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO7g7XCDEIg)
For what it's worth, I think the Azure team have done a really excellent job with the Portal, including just the right amount of functionality for the majority of users.
I´m interested to capture links, references and comments about multi-tenant architectures to deploy in the modality SaaS (Software as a Service) on the Windows Azure Platform.
One link for you is the Fabrikam shipping sample from microsoft - https://fabrikamshipping.cloudapp.net/
Source code - http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/fshipsaassource
Blog posts - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbertocci/archive/2010/10/07/new-online-demo-introducing-fabrikamshipping-saas.aspx
You can also look at our sample and book. It is similar to Fabrikam but has the content that goes along with the code that talks about all the trade offs. We will be updating our code/content in the next month to work with the new features of Windows Azure (ACS & Caching).
You can get the book on Amazon.
Here's a brand new multi-tenant sample application, Cloud Ninja, that demonstrates several facets of a multi-tenant application in Windows Azure. There's also a related blog here.
One thing you might need for your multi-tenant architecture is to have multiple SSL certificates (one for each tenant's custom domain) for a single HTTPS binding.
I'm a Microsoft Technical Evangelist and I have posted a detailed explanation and a sample "plug & play" source-code on how to do it with Azure Cloud Services with SNI at:
http://www.vic.ms/microsoft/windows-azure/multiples-ssl-certificates-on-windows-azure-cloud-services/
I started to learn everything connected with Azure platform a little time ago. I'm really fascinated how some stuff works like a charm. One of that is AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS) and possibility of Single Sign On (SSO) with Facebook, Google, Live id...
When I was learning how to get running AppFabric I used preview version of it (available for free at https://portal.appfabriclabs.com/, but without SLA). Every tutorial about SSO was based on that Management portal.
Now, when I have my real Azure account (and AppFabric with it) I'm really confused because I can't find anywhere and section on portal where to configure ACS? I want to be able to create relaying party with facebook, live id and google identity provider using real appfabric account? Is that possible?
On some places I saw that this what I'm talking is only preview version of future ACS and that is not in production yet. So, if that is true, my main question is can I use production version (real appfabric account) to do single sign on on my web app? If not, what can I do with current production ACS version? What is the main purpose of it?
If someone have some links where are described main difference between Preview and Production version of AppFabric ACS, I will appreciate that.
P.S - Only tutorial that I found and is considered on current production release of ACS is at https://portal.appfabriclabs.com/. But I don't see integration with facebook, google.. There isn't SSO there...
Thank you in advance.
The current production version of ACS is a subset of what you see in the "Labs". Production currently supports SWT and WRAP. No WS-Federation, no WS-Trust, no (or limited) SAML.
All the cool stuff you mention (SSO for websites, out of the box integration with FB, Google, Yahoo! and LiveID, etc) is available on ACS "Labs" (which is not production yet).