Vittorio Bertocci
Scatter thoughts
Guess what?
…and that’s as much as I can say for now
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 08/21/2011
Hands-on lab: Windows Azure Marketplace for Applications
For the series “things I was working on before moving from DPE to the product team”. Today...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 08/09/2011
A Digression on ACS and Rules
As you know, ACS offers a simple-yet-powerful rule engine which you can use for processing incoming...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 07/25/2011
New in ACS: Portal in Multiple Languages, a New Rule Type… and Wave Bye-Bye to Quotas
Big news in ACSland today! There few new key features that - I am sure – many of you will...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 07/25/2011
Updated Windows Azure Access Control Service Cmdlets: Modules, Continuation and Backup/Restore!
As promised yesterday, here there’s one of the deliverables I mentioned. About one month ago we...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 07/12/2011
Ch-ch-ch-changes
[Dave, forgive me for lifting your headline it’s just too good a fit for the occasion] As...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 07/10/2011
Cloud Identity Summit: Come to Our Workshop!
Photo: Skinned Mink In just about three weeks the who’s who of identity in the cloud is going to...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 06/27/2011
Powerscripting Podcast: ACS, Windows Azure and… PowerShell
Last week I had the pleasure of being guest on the PowerScripting podcast, THE show about...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 06/13/2011
Edit and Apply New WIF’s Config Settings in Your Windows Azure WebRole… Without Redeploying!
In short: in this post I will show you how you can leverage the OnStart event of a WebRole to enable...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 05/31/2011
Storing Encrypted Tokens with the Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1
If you went through the hands on lab for using ACS on your Windows Phone 7 application, you already...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 05/25/2011
“Mango” and the ACS+Phone Samples
Yesterday we released the Beta of the Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1, with a boatload of new...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 05/25/2011
At TechEd Atlanta? Come Over to the Federated Identity Booth!
Friendly faces everywhere / Humble folks without temptation . More seriously, this is one of those...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 05/17/2011
Attention ASP.NET Developers: SAML-P Comes to WIF
If I’d have a dollar for every time a customer or partner asked me if they could use WIF for...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 05/16/2011
Live from TechEd Atlanta: Drew Shows Windows Azure, Windows Phone 7–Uses Identity to Glue Them
Just few hours ago Wade announced the new release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone,...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 05/16/2011
Bring Your Active Directory in Your Pockets with ACS, OAuth 2.0 and the New Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7
As promised last week, today Wade released the 1.2 version of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 05/15/2011
25 Free Copies of “Programming Windows Identity Foundation” at Teched
Yesterday I posted about my sessions at TechEd and the book signing event. My friends at O’Reilly,...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 05/14/2011
Fun in Netherlands (Presenting @ DevDays, Before You Get Any Ideas)
As anticipated, a couple of weeks ago I came back to EU to present at the Belgian TechDays and at...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 05/09/2011
Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 1.2 will Integrate with ACS
I am sure many of you already know about the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7, a set of...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 05/09/2011
Thank You, Kim!
Working with one of your idols is one once-in-a-lifetime privilege; getting to be friends, even...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 05/08/2011
Fun with FabrikamShipping SaaS III: Programmatic Use of the Enterprise Edition via OData, OAuth2
Welcome to the last installment of the “Fun with FabrikamShipping SaaS” series. The “fun” blogs are...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 05/04/2011
The New ACS on CloudCover
This week Steve was at Mobile/Cloud Connections in Vegas presenting on WP7 and Windows Azure. Wade...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 04/22/2011
Fell Thru the Cracks: “Re-Introducing the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service” on MSDN Magazine 12/2010
Oh boy, I am am really getting old. While I was compiling today’s yearly blog roundup I knew there...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 04/22/2011
8 Years of Blogging
As it is by now tradition, here there’s my annual checkpoint on blog activities (former years’...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 04/21/2011
ACS Extensions for Umbraco - Part III: Integration with ADFS and/or Any WS-Federation provider
Here there’s the last episode of the “how-to” series on the ACS Extensions for Umbraco, released...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 04/19/2011
ACS Extensions for Umbraco - Part II: Social Providers
Welcome to the second installment of the series on the ACS Extensions for Umbraco, part of the big...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 04/18/2011
Time to be a spreker again: TechDays Belgium & DevDays Nederlands
I am back from sunny Vegas, where we finally announced the RTW of the new ACS, to the less sunny...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 04/17/2011
ACS Extensions for Umbraco - Part I: Setup
More unfolding of the tangle of new content announced with the ACS launch. Today I want to highlight...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 04/14/2011
The New Hands-on Lab on ACS + WP7 + OAuth2.0 OData Service
After the new content storm of yesterday, here I’ll start to look at some individual pieces. The...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 04/13/2011
The new ACS ships!
Last week we shipped a new version of the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control service. and...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 04/11/2011
New ACS Infographic
Back in August I tried to capture in a single view all the relevant aspects for token issuing of...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 03/01/2011
New Topic on MSDN: WIF Configuration
The WIF online documentation just got a brand-new section, which provides a great reference for the...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 02/28/2011
February 2011 Updates to the Identity Training Kit & Course: new AppFabric Portal, Windows 7 SP1
As promised few weeks ago, here there’s the update to the identity developer training kit and the...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 02/24/2011
Fun with FabrikamShipping SaaS I: Creating a Small Business Edition Instance
It’s been few months that we pulled the wrap off FabrikamShipping SaaS, and the response...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 02/12/2011
New Portal for the ACS Labs: Fewer Clicks, Happier Carpal Tunnels
As the AppFabric services line up with the look & feel of the SL based Windows Azure portal, the...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 02/10/2011
Windows Azure Platform Training Kit and MSDN Course Update: Closing January in Style
Wade just announced the release of the January 2011 update of the Windows Azure Training Kit...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 01/31/2011
January 2011 Releases of the Identity Training Kit & the MSDN Online Identity Training Course
Today we are releasing an update to the Identity Developer Training Kit; we are also releasing the...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 01/24/2011
Detachable Lenses Give Your Smartphone the Gift of Supersight
[Yes, another non-identity and non-cloud related post about gadgets: after all, it’s Saturday! But...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 01/22/2011
New WIF Runtime EULA Allows for Redistribution! And Since I’m at it, Let’s Talk Windows Azure Startup Tasks
Back in December one pretty important piece of news didn’t get as much air time as it would have...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 01/13/2011
New FabrikamShipping SaaS Release for Windows Azure SDK 1.3 and December Labs Release of ACS
I hope you took some to time to rest last month, because now it’s time to dive right back in! To get...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 01/10/2011
My Team is Hiring!
Happy new year everyone! I have an enormous backlog of blog posts (and other things) to write, but...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 01/06/2011
New Paper: Single Sign-On from Active Directory to a Windows Azure Application
I knooow, for many of you this is already Not News; but I can assure you that if you would have...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 12/23/2010
More ACS Goodness coming your way
…just in time for the holidays! The ACS guys just rolled out an improvements-studded update to their...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 12/15/2010