Do you wish to have a super powerful Development & Test environment in the Azure Cloud which makes you really fast and efficient in development and continuous delivery? It’s actually very easy to set up, but there are a few necessary steps along the way. This post describes briefly how to do this and links to a comprehensive tutorial video which...

Humble and grateful to be re-awarded Microsoft Azure Most Valuable Professional 2015 for yet another year! My MVP profile on the official MVP site!   Dear Magnus Martensson, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2015 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their...

I am happy to be part of the announcement that the excellent batch processing service in the Azure Platform Microsoft Azure WebJobs is now Generally Available (GA). What are WebJobs The purpose of WebJobs is to provide a really easy way for you to host and execute batch processing jobs in the Cloud. There are of course very many reasons you would...

Azure Active Directory, the heart of user authentication, in Microsoft Clouds. It combines core directory services, advanced identity governance, security, and application access management. Azure AD also offers developers an identity management platform to deliver access control to their applications, based on centralized policy and rules. In this...

We are always searching for best practices and patterns as software developers. Here are some patterns for cloud development. Here is an interview with the author and editor of the book Cloud Design Patterns: Prescriptive Architecture Guidance for Cloud Applications, Masashi Narumoto. Masashi work in the Patterns & Practices team at Microsoft and...

Here is a minimal example of how to set up an ASP.NET MVC Application to use Owin to achieve Federated Authentication (WS-Federation) and trust the Microsoft Azure Access Control Service (ACS) to enable login with Facebook, Google, Live Id, Yahoo! and custom Active Directories using Active Directory Federation Service ADFS. Who am I (What’s my name)?...