Post courtesy of Evan Basalik One of the most resource intensive applications you can run on Windows is SQL Server. To some extent, this is demonstrated by the vast amounts of performance guidance and troubleshooting documents that exist all over the web. When running SQL Server in an Azure Virtual Machine (i.e., IaaS), there is… Continue reading Today’s (Cloud) Tip…Performance Guidance for SQL Server in Windows Azure Virtual Machines
Month: July 2013
Another (Cloud) Tip…Federated vs. Managed Users
By Evan Basalik Office 365 authentication has the concept of two types of users – federated and managed. Federated users are ones for whose authentication Office 365 communicates with an on-premises federation provider (ADFS, Ping, etc) that then talks to an on-premises authentication directory (i.e., Active Directory or other directories) to validate a user’s credentials.… Continue reading Another (Cloud) Tip…Federated vs. Managed Users
Today’s (Cloud) Tip… Same sign-on vs. Single sign-on
By Evan Basalik Customers can leverage Directory Synchronization (DirSync) to keep their local Active Directory and Windows Azure Active Directory in sync. The DirSync application runs on a regular basis and copies on-premises attributes to Windows Azure Active Directory. Applications like ACS and Office 365 then use Azure Active Directory to validate users’ identity and… Continue reading Today’s (Cloud) Tip… Same sign-on vs. Single sign-on