A Lap Around Azure Services, Part 2

Approach
- Flexible with Internet Scale
- Based on Internet Standards
- Extend your Existing Investments

There is a statement that there are Java, Perl and Pyhton SDKs in the box.

Identify and Access Control
- Leverage existing identity; don't force people to resubscribe if a backend system already has the info.
- Can use windows live id, "geneva", connectors.
- Geneva redirects user to corporate page that authenticates on back end AD service.
- Use Microsoft Services Connector

New mesh technologies will be introduced tomorrow.  Demonstration right now showing using liveID and mesh.  Showing redirect to live ID, where it asks the user for permission to give personal data to the caller.  More to be said tomorrow.

Service Bus.  Showing how to access it.  This is the same as the previous session on Dublin.  Looks like WCF programming.  The bus provides secure communications across partners.  Referred it to as the Internet Service Bus.

Workflow has been extended with Cloud Activities. They are showing the admin of workflow in the cloud service.  Really cool.  Deploy and run.

Showing how to build REST requests to SQL Server data, as well as access from Excel.