What am I going to blabber about? Well, as you may expect, I\u2019ll have a session on identity and Windows Azure; and after the longest time, I am also going to have a session not entirely identity centric, something about building SaaS solutions on the Windows Azure platform. Few days ago I had the chance to chat about it with Jennifer and Mike<\/a>: below there\u2019s resulting 10 mins video teaser from Channel9<\/a>. I suggest you also use it for getting a taste of my accent \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n about the sessions in themselves. I am still hoping one day to have a truly RESTful session catalog, but in the meanwhile there\u2019s a good trick for crafting a URL which will lead to one session description (at least until the site does not switch to next year\u2019s event :-). In any case, I\u2019ll also paste the abstract here.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Wednesday, November 10 | 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM<\/p>\n Session Type: Breakout Session <\/p>\n Track: Security, Identity & Access <\/p>\n Claims-based identity provides an open and interoperable approach to identity and access control that can be applied consistently, both on-premises and in the cloud. Come to this session to learn about how Windows Identity Foundation can be used to secure your Web Roles hosted in Windows Azure, how you can take advantage of existing on-premises identities, and how to make the best of features in our cloud offering, such as certificate management and staged environments. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Tuesday, November 9 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM<\/p>\n Session Type: Breakout Session <\/p>\n Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services <\/p>\n Come to this session to learn about how to take advantage of the Windows Azure platform for developing and running your subscription based applications. Discover, through concrete examples, how to onboard customers, dynamically provision application instances, handle single sign-on, and offer self-service authorization. Explore the patterns and the tradeoffs you need to consider in order to meet the needs of a wide variety of customers, all the while maintaining control over your resources and the way you run your business. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Both sessions are for developers<\/em>. Both at last TechEd USA and in internal events I gave similar sessions, with similar warnings, but I still got a lot of ITPros in the room. Many of those ITPros didn\u2019t believe me when I said (as very first thing in the session) that they would have hung themselves if they would have stayed, and trickled out when they experienced that first hand (saved some who endured the whole time, and later left the comments \u201ctoo developer centric\u201d, \u201ctoo much code\u201d). I don\u2019t blame anybody, the identity<->ITpro association is real strong and it can be hard not to fall in the stereotype: in any case, this year I insisted to have \u201cfor Developers\u201d IN THE TITLE of the session for maximum clarity. Yes, I am kind of a yagaiist!<\/p>\n COS334 will be largely based on FabrikamShipping SaaS<\/a>, announced a couple of days ago<\/a>. The surface covered by that sample is really big, and we plan to mine that for months.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As some of you already know, the part I prefer about TechEd is the chance to speak directly with customers & partners: nothing comes close to the pleasure of chatting face to face about technical stuff, perhaps with a coffee or a beer near by. If you see me around, don\u2019t be shy: come by and I\u2019ll be happy to chat. I\u2019ll be at the conference Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday I fly to Copenhagen, where I\u2019ll take a train for the splendid town of Malm\u00f6\u2026 but that\u2019s a story for another post \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n It\u2019s that time of the year again. After few months of Redmond-centric work, in early November I am scheduled to hop on a plane for Berlin and once again partake to the technology feast of Tech.Ed Europe, 2010 edition. 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SIA305 – Windows Identity Foundation and Windows Azure for Developers<\/a><\/h5>\n
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COS334 – Developing SaaS Solutions with the Windows Azure Platform<\/a><\/h5>\n
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