You can read all the details in Alex\u2019s announcement<\/a>: here I just want to briefly share my personal perspective on the matter.<\/p>\n This is the first service that I saw start to RTM since I joined the engineering team, and I can tell you firsthand that your feedback has been invaluable to shape direction and features. Keep being vocal guys, I can tell you it really works. Thanks again At the cost of being pedantic, I recommend reading Alex\u2019s announcement<\/a> for all the details. However, if I\u2019d have to summarize, here there\u2019s what\u2019s new:<\/p>\n That\u2019s pretty sweet. I\u2019ve been working with this from its very beginning, and I can tell you that the ease of use of the portal is light years ahead from anything you used during the preview.<\/p>\n You are not going to find here a very long blog post about the new GA features. The reason is\u2026 that this time I wrote directly for MSDN! Well, the result is a set of really long walkthroughs (surprised? The big advantage of writing official documentation is that it really is a team effort, which leads to superior results: the authors might have been the ones seeding the process but then testers, writers and an army of reviewers verify, filter and refine to bring the content to a much higher bar. But hey, I am biased! You be the judge, the links are below:.<\/p>\n One thing I like to remind myself is that what is being released today is the ability to use AAD for your own applications; however, the directory itself has been joyously humming for months already, serving the need of 2.9 Million organizations. 65 BILLION authentication requests just in the last 90 days, with 99.97% or better monthly availability!<\/p>\n All that power is now at the fingertips of all Windows Azure customers. As it is customary for me to say in those cases: I can\u2019t wait to see what you\u2019ll do with it! Less than one year has passed since we started to talk about how this new service, Windows Azure Active Directory, could handle identity for your own cloud apps with the same infrastructure that powers Microsoft\u2019s own SaaS services: Office365, Intune, Windows Azure itself\u2026It\u2019s been a great journey: we released preview bits often, working…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Thank You for Your Feedback<\/h3>\n
From partners and customers setting up pilot projects to casual commenters on the forums and blogs, going through our fantastic community of MVPs, Insiders and Regional Directors, your passion and the feedback that came out of it had a major impact on the product. I know lots of you will be pleasantly surprised by what you\u2019ll see in the new portal today!<\/p>\n![\"Smile\"](\"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wlEmoticon-smile1.png\")
<\/p>\nNew Features<\/h3>\n
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New Developer Content!<\/h3>\n
Few weeks ago I was drafted to write two walkthroughs about key scenarios, using Windows Azure AD for Web sign on with LoB applications and identity for multitenant applications. My good friend and colleague Edward Wu was asked to do the same for describing how to use the Directory Graph.
We wanted to write something different from the usual tutorials, going beyond describing a toy sample\u2026 something that would help you to set up a working solution, sure, but that at the same time would help you to truly understand the key aspects of the technologies being used. <\/p>\n![\"Winking](\"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile.png\")
) that, I believe, you\u2019ll find very thorough.<\/p>\n\n
Amazing Numbers<\/h3>\n
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