This is going to be a multi-part series to dissect and tear apart an application I tweeted about using the #yammerofjuly hashtag. This is an application I developed a couple of months ago as a means of illustrating some of the different complexities and options when building applications that span several cloud services. Through the…
Tag: Azure
Debugging SharePoint Apps That Are Hosted In Windows Azure Web Sites
Today, I'm going to be the lazy human I'm so frequently accused of being by my somewhat faithful dog Shasta, and bring together two posts written by two other folks into one uber "ain't it cool how this all works together post" by me. Here are the two concepts we're combining today: Publishing a provider-hosted…
Creating a Yammer-Centric Security Setup for SharePoint 2013
Okay, I’m going to preface everything in this post by saying what I’m going to be describing is not what you would consider the most secure SharePoint web application in the world. If you are working with sensitive content then this is probably (but not absolutely) NOT the best solution for you. However, if you…
Integrating SharePoint 2013 with Azure Active Directory – Part 1 Configuration
NOTE: I updated this 10/9/2013 because some of the Url references I had below had changed between when I did it (when AAD was in preview) and now (RTM). The Azure Active Directory (AAD) team has made the first release of their product. Along the way they’ve added functionality that allows you to configure AAD…
Creating and Using a Certificate for the CSUpload Tool with Azure IaaS Services
In my posting on using SharePoint up in Azure IaaS services (http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2012/06/17/creating-an-azure-persistent-vm-for-an-isolated-sharepoint-farm.aspx), one of my friends – Mike Taghizadeh, who demands that he be mentioned 🙂 – noticed that I didn’t have instructions for how to create a certificate and use that with the csupload command line tool. So to help those that may be…
Creating an Azure Persistent VM for an Isolated SharePoint Farm
The first step in being able to create a persistent VM in Azure is to get your account upgraded to take advantage of these features, which are all in preview. Once the features are enabled you can follow this process to get the various components configured to support running an isolated SharePoint farm. In this…
The Azure Custom Claim Provider for SharePoint Project Part 3
In Part 1 of this series, I briefly outlined the goals for this project, which at a high level is to use Windows Azure table storage as a data store for a SharePoint custom claims provider. The claims provider is going to use the CASI Kit to retrieve the data it needs from Windows Azure…
The Azure Custom Claim Provider for SharePoint Project Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I briefly outlined the goals for this project, which at a high level is to use Windows Azure table storage as a data store for a SharePoint custom claims provider. The claims provider is going to use the CASI Kit to retrieve the data it needs from Windows Azure…
The Azure Custom Claim Provider for SharePoint Project Part 1
Hi all, it’s been a while since I’ve added new content about SAML claims, so I decided to come back around and write some more about it in a way that links together some of my favorite topics – SharePoint, SAML, custom claims providers, the CASI Kit and Azure. This is the first part in…
One of the request inputs is out of range Error with Azure Table Storage
I wanted to document this error here because I recently went nearly blind trying to solve it, and I never did find the exact cause when Bing'ing for it. Unfortunately it's a pretty generic error so it may very well have been out there, but it seems there are several reasons for it. In my…