Introduction: There is a very long and complex way to install Active Directory in Windows Azure environment described in details in Windows Azure documentation here http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/services/networking/active-directory-forest/ , what I will propose in this post is a simple way...

The Scenario I wanted to implement an Azure web site that is using the Azure Access Control Service and integrates with an external identity provider to authenticate and authorize users. At first I thought of using Windows Live ID but it has a problem that the only claim offered by WLID is the unique...

This is very famous issue when you create many Virtual Machines on Windows Azure, after deleting the VMs the virtual disks (VHD files) are still there. So far there is no way to remove these VHD files using the GUI interface, so I started to search how can I do it through PowerShell. The challenge of...

Introduction In the first part of these series, I talked about built-in diagnostics features of Windows Azure platform and mentioned that it gives high-level diagnostic information; for detail troubleshooting information a custom logging capability is recommended. In this post, I will propose a solution...

Introduction I have been developing an MVC 4.0 web application that is hosted in Azure platform. In this first part of 2-blog post series, I will talk about leveraging built-in logging and tracing features of Windows Azure platform.   Context Use of built-in diagnostic features requires 3 main steps...

This is the first post in a series to take you through my learning experience to using the Windows Azure service bus. The Service Bus is a concrete implementation of the service bus pattern designed to operate at Internet scope within highly-scalable Microsoft data centers as a constituent of the Windows...