How to enable Remote Desktop for your Windows Azure Roles

The latest Azure SDK 1.3 makes it possible to login to the VM of your web/worker role instances via Remote desktop. So you are not limited to use VM Role in case you need to establish a RDP connection to your VM. This helps you to monitor the error events that occur in your events, also you can...

Active Directory Domain Join of Azure Roles Using Connect

We already have seen how Windows Azure connect can help us in connecting our windows azure role instances to our local computers in the previous post. We also saw in the use cases/scenarios for azure connect, that we can domain join our windows azure roles with our on-premise Active Directory, and this is possible by using connect plug-in....

Guide to Windows Azure Connect

Building applications for cloud and hosting them on cloud is one of the great things that happened in recent times. However, you might be having number of existing applications that you wish to migrate to cloud, but you do not want to move your database server to the cloud. Or you want to create a new application and...

Cap your SQL Azure Database Automatically: Limit the Size

You might already be aware that you can set an upper limit for your SQL Azure Database. This way we can specify that your database size should not grow beyond this upper limit, to avoid being billed without your knowledge. Not only this you will not be billed based on your cap size, rather you will be billed...

HTTP Error Code: 400 Message: No tenant signing key of type X509 certificate is provisioned.

After the September release if you are configuring your service namespace as per old method you might get following error: HTTP Error Code: 400 Message: No tenant signing key of type X509 certificate is provisioned. Trace ID: 2c46fa55-8ae8-443b-9f8a-ab885593c3fb Timestamp This is caused because your token signing certificate is not configured properly. In order for Federation Metadata to work,...

What is Relying Party (RP)

An application that accepts tokens from an STS is called as a Relying Party (or RP). In modern scenarios, web applications use WIF and accept tokens from an STS to manage authentications process. These tokens acts a proof that user has been authenticated by our application. Thus, our application relies on an external service i.e. an STS to...

What are Claims

The security tokens generated by STS contain various attributes based on which a grant/deny access is provided or based on which user experience is customized. These attributes are called as Claims. A claim can be a user name, user’s email, it can even be permissions such as canWrite, canRead etc or it can be roles or groups to...

What is Security Token Service (STS)

Traditionally, access control was implemented within the main application by writing a code against user’s credentials to authenticate them and based on their attributes grant/deny access to various resources. This required application developers to be skilled in implementing security and writing a code which is hard to implement and maintain. Due to Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) all this...

AppFabric ACS Exception: A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client (wresult="<t:RequestSecurityTo...")

AppFabric ACS Exception : A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was When you are working with AppFabric ACS labs and implement identity providers such as Windows Livefollowing error might show up when you try to run your application A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client (wresult="<t:RequestSecurityTo..."). This error occurs because ACS sends you a SAML in...

AppFabric ACS September release is announced

Well, i was just over with integrating AppFabric ACS with windows azure cloud app, using the August release, and now i hear that September release is out. September release of AppFabric ACS contains incremental updates including support for OAUth 2.0 Web Server, additional support fpr X.509 certificates, ability to upload WS-Fed metadat through portal, expanded support for machine...

Hosted first AppFabric ACS Labs integrated App on Azure

After all initial hiccups and with the help of MSDN forums and Justin Smith and Vittorio Bertocci's Blogs i have been able to integrate my web role with AppFabric ACS Labs. What i implemented is just Single Sign On with Windows Live ID. Yes, only one Identity Provider, though i could have opted for Facebook Connect, Google and...

What is Passive Federation

When i started working with ACS on Appfabric I kept on encountering various terminologies, one of them was Passive Federation and it was widely used. I could understand the term Federation but passive was not clear to me ever. So, I did some research and finally got an answer by Vittorio at Vibro.net . The term Passive refers...

Lock held by distributed in doubt transactions for some transaction id

If you will get an error like this "locked held by distributed in doubt transactions for some transaction id". Please follow the following steps to recover from locking. Try to find out the locked transaction id from the server error logs. Execute select * from dba_2pc_pending in DB console. You should be able to see the particular locked...

Microsoft Windows 7 PC better than MAC

Windows 7 powered PC is better than Mac. I agree with this new campaign that Microsoft has started. Microsoft added a new section to their Windows 7 site titled "PC vs Mac". It's the first time i have seen Microsoft going this way of directly marking their products as better than those of their competitors.  Apple has been...

BEA-010061 Error in deploying MDB in weblogic 10

Error Details: <EJB> <BEA-010061> <The Message-Driven EJB: testingMDB is unable to connect to the JMS destination: Queue_use1. The Error was: Cannot get destination information. The destination JNDI name is Queue_use1, the provider URL is null>It was showing “Not connected” in weblogic user interface also.Platform Details: Developing a Message driven bean in eclipse 3.4.2 and deployed in weblogic 10Solution:...

Restricting access to pages such as AllItems.aspx, EditForm.aspx in MOSS

In Moss 2007 we have the pages such as AllItems.aspx which are used to view the contents of a List or a document Library. Similary, the page AllForms.aspx is used to view all the Forms in a Forms Library. So as we have other pages Editform.aspx, DispForm.aspx.Now if you have enabled anonynmous access on your system, then these...

VSTS: Failed to queue test run Error : Unable to find assembly Smartdevice

During my stint with Load Tests in Visual Studio Team System, I was able to successfully run my Load Test, but after i configured the Rig and edited the configuration file i started getting following error whenever i ran the test.Failed to queue test run Unable to find assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.SmartDevice.TestHostAdapterAfter trying various things i finally found out it...

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