Tag: Azure

The CASI Kit Announcement from SharePoint Conference

Just wanted to update folks with the announcement made at the SharePoint Conference yesterday regarding the CASI Kit.  I have decided to release everything for it – full source code to the base class, the web part, and all of the sample projects – up to CodePlex.  If you go to casikit.codeplex.com now you can…

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Major Announcement for CASI Kit Coming at SharePoint Conference 2011

Hi folks, I just wanted to let you know that I will be making a major announcement for the CASI Kit at next week’s SharePoint Conference 2011.  If you are down there come by session SPC 412 – SharePoint, Azure and Claims Integration for Developers on Wednesday at 3:15PM to catch the news.  For those…

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Windows Azure 1.4 Diagnostics All Up Overview

I know that there have been a number of posts and articles out there about using diagnostics in Windows Azure.  This, in fact, was part of the problem when I went to flesh out the details of what’s available recently.  I found a bunch of different articles, but spread across many different releases of Azure…

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Federated SAML Authentication with SharePoint 2010 and Azure Access Control Service Part 2

In the first post in this series (http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2011/05/05/federated-saml-authentication-with-sharepoint-2010-and-azure-access-control-service-part-1.aspx) I described how to configure SharePoint to establish a trust directly with the Azure Access Control (ACS) service and use it to federate authentication between ADFS, Yahoo, Google and Windows Live for you and then use that to get into SharePoint.  In part 2 I’m going to…

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Adding Support for Multiple SharePoint 2010 Farms and the CASI Kit in Your WCF

Someone raised an interesting question the other day about the ability of a WCF application, that's configured as described in Eric White's blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericwhite/archive/2010/06/18/establishing-trust-between-a-wcf-web-service-and-the-sharepoint-2010-security-token-service.aspx) and the CASI Kit Part 2 (http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2010/11/06/the-claims-azure-and-sharepoint-integration-toolkit-part-2.aspx).  The configuration in these blogs describes modifying the web.config for the WCF so that it includes links to an issuer and issuerMetadata address, which…

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Using WireShark to Trace Your SharePoint 2010 to Azure WCF Calls over SSL

One of the interesting challenges when trying to troubleshoot remotely connected systems is figuring out what they're saying to each other.  The CASI Kit that I've posted about other times on this blog (http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2010/11/06/the-claims-azure-and-sharepoint-integration-toolkit-part-1.aspx) is a good example whose main purpose in life is providing plumbing to connect data center clouds together.  One of the…

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CASI Kit Part 6 – Integrating SQL Azure with SharePoint 2010 and Windows Azure

This post is most useful when used as a companion to my five-part series on the CASI (Claims, Azure and SharePoint Integration) Kit.  ·         Part 1:  an introductory overview of the entire framework and solution and described what the series is going to try and cover. ·         Part 2:  the guidance part of the CASI…

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The Claims, Azure and SharePoint Integration Toolkit Part 5

This is part 5 of a 5 part series on the CASI (Claims, Azure and SharePoint Integration) Kit.  ·         Part 1:  an introductory overview of the entire framework and solution and described what the series is going to try and cover. ·         Part 2:  the guidance part of the CASI Kit.  It starts with making WCF…

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The Claims, Azure and SharePoint Integration Toolkit Part 4

This is part 4 of a 5 part series on the CASI (Claims, Azure and SharePoint Integration) Kit.  ·         Part 1:  an introductory overview of the entire framework and solution and described what the series is going to try and cover. ·         Part 2:  the guidance part of the CASI Kit.  It starts with making WCF…

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