Welcome to part three of a blog series based on my
latest PluralSight course: Applied Windows Azure. Previously, we’ve discussed
Azure Web Sites and
Azure Worker Roles.
Motivation
Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD) is another important building block offered as part of the Windows Azure platform. You can think of WAAD as a repository for your organization’s directory data in the cloud. Directory objects include users and groups along with their identity and access information.
By externalizing the directory data into a common location (WAAD), it is possible to provide a single sign-on and sign-out experience for enterprise applications, as well as SaaS offerings.
While WAAD is a cloud-based service, you can use it for on-premises in addition to cloud-based applications. Read More…
I recently needed to verify the integrity of a large number of XML files that are stored in Azure Blob Storage. These files were essentially hand-written and contained numerous typos, errors and other inconsistencies. I needed to not only identify files that contained well-formed XML, but also find files containing nodes with names that were not on a list of known good names.
