The art of simplicity

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The easiest way to enable classic ASP support on Windows Azure is by using a start-up task. Start-up tasks were added in the SDK 1.3 release and allow you to configure a virtual machine instance when it’s created. So we will define a start-up task to set up the webrole and enable classic ASP support. To do this, open the ServiceDefinition.csdef file in the Windows Azure project, locate the WebRole element in the service model and inside it, insert a Startup element with a single task, as shown below. <ServiceDefinition name="CloudService" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ServiceHosting/2008/10/ServiceDefinition"> <WebRole name="ClassicWebApp"> <Sites> <Site name="Web"> <Bindings> <Binding name="HttpIn" endpointName="HttpIn" /> </Bindings> </Site> </Sites> <ConfigurationSettings> </ConfigurationSettings> <Endpoints> <InputEndpoint name="HttpIn...

At a couple customers we are using the Microsoft Authorization Manager (Azman). This gives us great flexibility in managing the security aspect of our applications. But one very important feature is missing: the possibility to migrate data between Azman stores.  Follow this link to learn more about AzMan . While there is no production tool meant to provide this, a sample application azmigrate.exe is available in the Windows SDK. This tool can export the AzMan store allowing migrations from AD to XML or from XML to AD. To get azmigrate.exe you must download the Windows SDK and once it is installed you need to: 1) Compile the AzMigrate project using Visual Studio: a. Select File > Open > Project/Solution. b. Change the Solutions Configurations drop-down in the toolbar from Debug to Release. (Don’t forget to do this. I got some compilation errors in Debug mode.) c. Select AzMigrate.vcproj located under %programfiles%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0...