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Imagine that you are an Independent Software Vendor (ISV), have a purchaser for your Windows Azure application and you want to transfer a copy of the starter database to the customer. However, you don’t want to give them the Administrative login and password...
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If you’ve been looking for information on SQL Azure security, check out Security Resources for the Windows Azure Platform . This new topic in the MSDN Library provides links to many of the articles, blogs, videos, and webcasts on Windows Azure Platform...
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The Open Data Protocol (OData) is an emerging standard for querying and updating data over the Web. OData is a REST-based protocol whose core focus is to maximize the interoperability between data services and clients that wish to access that data. It...
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In this former blog post I discussed how to enable access to SQL Azure from PowerPivot. Now that access is enabled and the data is available to you, let’s examine how PowerPivot and SQL Azure work from a security perspective. Accessing the Data In order...
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PowerPivot is a powerful, downloadable extension to Microsoft Excel 2010 that allows you to perform business intelligence and analytics against known data sources. One excellent data source you can use is your SQL Azure database. This article will talk...
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In this video, Max Adams introduces security within SQL Azure. The creation of Logins, Databases and Users is discussed and demonstrated. The views sys.sql_logins and sys.databases which allow the display of logins and databases from the master database...
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When you generate a SQL Azure server via the SQL Azure portal , you generate a user name and password at the same time. This is your administrative account it has access to all databases on that server. However, you might want to give other people access...
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The entire book is now available for browsing online on MSDN here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff359115%28lightweight%29.aspx Now, to be honest, it doesn’t look as nice as the printed book (small preview here): But everything...
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IIS security guy Nazim Lala has just blogged about a IIS 6 security issue, related to the use of Semi-colon (;) in a URL. It's not much of an issue if your IIS 6 server is properly configured. Good example of how Best practices can make your day....
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In synch with the availability of ADFS V2.0 Release Candidate , I’m very happy to announce that we are posting a new update of the guide. Our own “RC”. You’ll find new samples and new chapters. Both content complete now. We are now covering the following...
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Yesterday, we uploaded a new release of the Guide and the samples. You can download the content from here . (Note: if you downloaded them yesterday, you might want to check again. We mistakenly uploaded the samples with no docs. It is fixed now). You...
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Now that we presented the scenario & the requirements , let’s take a look at the solution. What is conceptual solution we propose? Fabrikam Shipping in the pre-Claims era: This diagram shows Fabrikam Shipping today if used by Adatum (no claims, no...
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Web and Cloud
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Eugenio Pace
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09-04-2009
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Filed under: Security, S+S, Architecture, SaaS, .NET Services, Federated Identity, IssueTracker, Claims, Web Client, Federation Provider, Identity Provider
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Once again, thanks everybody that wrote us with reviews, feedback and suggestions! Please keep it coming! Also: we hope to have soon a CodePlex site where we can start sharing more. We are still working out some details. As usual, the Disclaimer: this...
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As I mentioned in my previous post , we are going to use a “case study” approach in this book in which we will be presenting a series of concrete scenarios, each one will introduce some very specific requirements. Then we will be showing and discussing...