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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

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