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Azure VMs – SQL Server AlwaysOn Setup across multiple Data Centers fully automated (Classic Service Management)
I’ve just published some code as a sample (under MIT License as per my github repository) which was...
Date: 05/05/2015
Detecting if a Virtual Machine Runs in Microsoft Azure (Linux & Windows) to Protect your Software when distributed via the Azure Marketplace
Since the introduction of the Azure Marketplace many publishers are trying to protect their software...
Date: 04/16/2015
Azure Websites - Updating my Wordpress Blog and PHP runtime in a save way with Websites Backup
As some of my readers know my blog runs on Microsoft Azure Websites. Since I launched this new...
Date: 01/17/2015
Azure Batch – (Highly Scalable) Batch Processing with Microsoft Azure (and a Successor to GeRes2)
Azure Batch is a completely managed service, you could see it as “batch processing as a service”. It...
Date: 11/20/2014
Janet Moonshot & FreeRADIUS on Microsoft Azure – An important step for Researchers for being able to use Microsoft’s Public Cloud Platform
Over the past months I’ve spent some time working with Janet the UK’s National Research and...
Date: 06/18/2014
GeRes2 – An OSS Framework for Reliable Execution of Background Jobs on Azure
A few weeks ago we published an open source framework that covers a scenario required by many...
Date: 06/02/2014
Java & Windows Azure – Using vFabric TC Server with the Azure Plug-In for Eclipse
If you plan to use vFabric TC Server as a container for your Java applications in Windows Azure PaaS...
Date: 03/05/2014
Cloud - Windows Azure - Combining PaaS & IaaS to get best of both worlds in your Architecture (cross-post - based on Basta 2013 Presentation)
Combining Virtual Machines (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) with highly scalable Cloud Services...
Date: 09/26/2013
My new Blog - on Windows Azure Websites
Hi again! It's about more than a year ago since I blogged for the last time. But now I've decided to...
Date: 08/27/2013
Hybrid - Cloud integrated with On-Premises - value, thoughts, technical options...
In the past two months several of our partners and customers confronted me with the topic “hybrid...
Date: 12/30/2011
changes - my next big bet - cloud computing
After a little bit more than 1.5 years as a Microsoft enterprise architect working for a United...
Date: 12/02/2011
What has changed? – More Architecture! – Blog.Restart()
My last blog entry is quite a while ago… November 2011 after my two sessions and Track Ownership at...
Date: 04/04/2011
TechEd Europe – DEV309 – WCF Data Services, A Practical Deep-Dive – Session Demos Download
As promised in the last session of this year’s TechEd Europe which I had today on WCF Data Services,...
Date: 11/12/2010
TechEd Europe – DEV305 – Introduction to Parallel Programming – Session Demos Download
I was just coming back from my first session at TechEd on parallel programming before I started...
Date: 11/10/2010
JAOO (Goto;)) 2010 - What a cool conference - Download Presentation and Code
Wow, it was a busy time the past months since I switched from Developer&Platform Evangelism to...
Date: 11/10/2010
TechDays 2010 in Basel – Download my Samples for Windows Identity Foundation
Well, I know, it’s a few weeks ago, already when we had TechDays Switzerland in Basel. Finally now I...
Date: 05/07/2010
1st Architecture Conference in the History of Microsoft Austria…
…and it’s my baby. Today the conference web site for the 1st architecture conference in the history...
Date: 04/28/2010
Cloud computing contest with Windows Azure – The architecture and technology of our Austrian contest application
As many of you might know, in Austria we are currently running a Windows Azure Contest where it’s...
Date: 04/14/2010
Parallel Computing – BigDays – Lamda-Expression-Trap I mentioned during the session – Understanding Bound and Free Variables in Lamdas
At my session on parallel computing at BigDays 2010 during my first demo I mentioned a potential...
Date: 04/08/2010
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 / Visual Studio 2008 Projects in Visual Studio 2010 RC
If you're experiencing problems upgrading your MVC-projects, check out this blog post. It shows a...
Date: 03/05/2010
Windows Azure Dev Fabric, WCF Service for AJAX not working due to an HTTP 404.3 Error – and the easy solution;)
Recently at my home machine I ran into a strange issue while developing an application for our...
Date: 02/26/2010
Fans of Zune HD will be fans of Windows Phone 7…
Today we watched the opening key note of MWC in Barcelona where Steve Ballmer shared the first...
Date: 02/15/2010
SQL Azure – Make ASP.NET Membership and Roles API work on your Cloud Database
In my last posting on the MSDN Briefing I outlined, that I migrated a sample that uses ASP.NET...
Date: 02/10/2010
Cloud Computing & Windows Azure – MSDN Briefing in Austria from January 26th
On January 26th I presented at our MSDN-Briefing on Cloud Computing and Windows Azure. During the...
Date: 02/10/2010
Bitlocker in a Windows 7 Guest running on a Hyper-V R2 environment (or any environment without a TPM)
Today I am ill and lying in the bed with a medium temperature… but honestly, I can’t lie in bed the...
Date: 02/03/2010
Redbull Stratos – Felix Baumgartner, his mission to space and a little Austrian Microsoft team...
Well, one none-technical article as an exception;) Since last Friday right after the...
Date: 01/25/2010
Nice Browser HTML/JavaScript Trick based on yesterday’s expert chat on derStandard.at – avoid “Unknown Runtime Error” in IE while setting innerHTML of a -tag...
Yesterday someone during our Cloud-Computing chat at derstandard.at (see here) someone asked me why...
Date: 01/21/2010
Session with my current view on Microsoft’s Modeling Strategies: DSLs, UML and Software Factories
Yesterday I had the great pleasure of giving a session on Microsoft’s strategy on modeling, model...
Date: 01/19/2010
Windows 7 God Mode – Even more Folder GUIDs
If you’ve read my previous post on Windows 7 God-Mode, there are a number of further special folder...
Date: 01/07/2010
WinHappy New Year 2010 – A Gift – Windows 7 God Mode
Hello everybody and a happy new year. I just read a cool blog post from Georg Binder in Austria...
Date: 01/04/2010
Windows Azure Tokens and Step-By-Step Guide for Austrian Customers
Finally the last few hours I’ve been working on a (German) step-by-step guide for deploying...
Date: 12/15/2009
PDC 2009 - Being in Windows Azure:)
At PDC in the expo-hall they have a container as it will be used as deployment-unit in the new...
Date: 11/18/2009
PDC 2009 – In my opinion a more consistent platform story than last year… Windows AppFabric & Co
While Max is blogging on codefest.at about todays key note, where Steven Sinofsky came up with a...
Date: 11/18/2009
Live from PDC 2009 in L.A. – Windows Identity Foundation Released and further cool announcements…
This morning at PDC 2009 I joined a session from Mr. Identity himself, Kim Cameron. Kim gave a very...
Date: 11/17/2009
ARC305 Downloads – My Session @ TechEd Europe in Berlin on “Always Responsive Apps & Services”
Right before my session is going to start here in Berlin at 5.30 p.m. I found time to upload my...
Date: 11/11/2009
Internet Explorer 8 – All-In-One-Demo for Web Slices, Accelerators and Open Search Integration
Today based on some customer project requirements, Max and I together created a very simple and...
Date: 10/30/2009
Microsoft Office 2007 – Update Registration Info Tool for my Cousin…
My cousin wanted to update the registration-information specified while installing Microsoft Office...
Date: 10/28/2009
Windows Communication Foundation and SOAP with Attachments Message Encoder built in Interop-Lab with SVC (Sozialversicherungs-Chipkarten Betriebs- und Errichtungsgesellschaft m.b.H.))
As some of you know I am the founder and owner of the Austrian Microsoft Interoperability Council....
Date: 10/19/2009
DevCamp 2009 – My Session on Always Responsive Applications and Services covering .NET 4.0 Task Parallel Library and CCR with Connection to a Real-World Scenario
Maybe some of you have read the Whitepaper I’ve written together with two architects from Frequentis...
Date: 10/15/2009
DevCamp 2009 Conference – Key Note on Windows Azure with Step-By-Step Guide in Slides on how-to get your Azure Token!!
It was a great pleasure for me to be part of the opening key note at our 3rd Developer Camp...
Date: 10/15/2009
ASP.NET MVC Demo Application – Austrian Re-MIX Conference from October 1st 2009 – Updating (complex) object hierarchies using ModelBinder
Yesterday we had our Austrian version of the Re-MIX conference in the Hilton Hotel at Stadtpark in...
Date: 10/02/2009