Azure SQL Database – Dynamic Data Masking Walkthrough
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of the Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) feature for Azure SQL Database that holds a lot of potential for on-the-fly data obfuscation that traditionally would have required either custom business logic or third party systems.
In this post I am going to take the opportunity to walk through how we can set this up for an existing database. For the purpose of this post I am going to utilise the AdventureWorks sample database for Azure SQL Database which you can download from Codeplex.… [Keep reading] “Azure SQL Database – Dynamic Data Masking Walkthrough”
Mule ESB DEV/TEST environments in Microsoft Azure
Agility in delivery of IT services is what cloud computing is all about. Week in, week out, projects on-board and wind-up, developers come and go. This places enormous stress on IT teams with limited resourcing and infrastructure capacity to provision developer and test environments. Leveraging public cloud for integration DEV/TEST environments is not without its challenges though. How do we develop our interfaces in the cloud yet retain connectivity to our on-premises line-of-business systems?
In this post I will demonstrate how we can use Microsoft Azure to run Mule ESB DEV/TEST environments using point-to-site VPNs for connectivity between on-premises DEV resources and our servers in the cloud.… [Keep reading] “Mule ESB DEV/TEST environments in Microsoft Azure”
Sharing Azure SSO Access Tokens Across Multiple Native Mobile Apps
This blog post is the fourth and final in the series that cover Azure AD SSO in native mobile applications.
- Authenticating iOS app users with Azure Active Directory
- How to Best handle AAD access tokens in native mobile apps
- Using Azure SSO tokens for Multiple AAD Resources From Native Mobile Apps
- Sharing Azure SSO Access Tokens Across Multiple Native Mobile Apps (this post).
Introduction
Most enterprises have more than one mobile app and it’s not unusual for these mobile apps to interact with some back-end services or APIs to fetch and update data.… [Keep reading] “Sharing Azure SSO Access Tokens Across Multiple Native Mobile Apps”
Using Azure SSO Tokens for Multiple AAD Resources From Native Mobile Apps
This blog post is the third in a series that cover Azure Active Directory Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication in native mobile applications.
- Authenticating iOS app users with Azure Active Directory
- How to Best handle AAD access tokens in native mobile apps
- Using Azure SSO tokens for Multiple AAD Resources From Native Mobile Apps (this post)
- Sharing Azure SSO access tokens across multiple native mobile apps.
Introduction
In an enterprise context it is highly likely there are multiple web services that your native mobile app needs to consume.… [Keep reading] “Using Azure SSO Tokens for Multiple AAD Resources From Native Mobile Apps”
How to Best Handle Azure AD Access Tokens in Native Mobile Apps
This blog post is the second in a series that cover Azure Active Directory Single Sign On (SSO) Authentication in native mobile applications.
- Authenticating iOS app users with Azure Active Directory
- How to Best handle AAD access tokens in native mobile apps (this post)
- Using Azure SSO access token for multiple AAD resources from native mobile apps
- Sharing Azure SSO access token across multiple native mobile apps.
In my previous post, I talked about authenticating mobile app users using Azure AD SSO.… [Keep reading] “How to Best Handle Azure AD Access Tokens in Native Mobile Apps”
Implementing Azure Active Directory SSO (Single Sign on) in Xamarin iOS apps
This blog post is the first in a series that cover Azure Active Directory Single Sign On (SSO) Authentication in native mobile applications.
- Authenticating iOS app users with Azure Active Directory (this post)
- How to Best handle AAD access tokens in native mobile apps
- Using Azure SSO access token for multiple AAD resources from native mobile apps
- Sharing Azure SSO access token across multiple native mobile apps.
Brief Start
Two weeks ago the Azure AD (AAD) team released the Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) to enable developers to implement SSO functionality leveraging AAD.… [Keep reading] “Implementing Azure Active Directory SSO (Single Sign on) in Xamarin iOS apps”
Installing WordPress in a Sub-Folder on Azure Websites
This blog post shows you how to install a wordpress website in a sub-folder on your Azure website. Now somebody would ask why would I need to do that, and that is a good question, so let me start with the reasons:
Why do it this way?
Assume that you have a website and you want to create a blog section. This is a very common practice and most companies nowadays have a blog section of the website (which replaces the old “news” page).… [Keep reading] “Installing WordPress in a Sub-Folder on Azure Websites”
Getting Started with Office 365 Video
Starting Tuesday November 18 Microsoft started rolling out Office 365 Video to customers who have opted in to the First Release programme (if you haven’t you will need to wait a little longer!)
Kloud has built video solutions on Office 365 in the past so it’s great to see Microsoft deliver this as a native feature of SharePoint Online – and one that leverages the underlying power of Azure Media Services capabilities for video cross-encoding and dynamic packaging.… [Keep reading] “Getting Started with Office 365 Video”