1. Introduction to Windows Azure AppFabric
Name
Title
Microsoft Corporation

2. Session Objectives Motivating Challenges
What is Windows Azure AppFabric?
How is it used?
Futures

3. Motivating Challenges
How do you integrate with components outside your corporate network?
How do you expose your software to users outside of your organization?
Can they use their existing identities? Social identities?
What about smaller, non-enterprise customers?
How do you reduce latency and increase performance?
<the list goes on…>

4. Windows Azure AppFabric
Comprehensive building block services for developing, deploying, and managing applications
Higher level Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities
Increase developer productivity
Bridge existing applications to the cloud
Windows Azure AppFabric
Caching
Service Bus
Access Control
Integration
Composite App
(WF, WCF)

5. Watch these PDC Sessions
Integration Service
“Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 and Roadmap”
Composite Applications
“Composing Applications with AppFabric Services”

6. Environments Production (http://appfabric.azure.com/)
Service Bus v1
Access Control v1
LABS (
Service Bus v2 CTP
Access Control v2 CTP
Caching CTP

7. Getting Started in AppFabric LABS
demo
Getting Started in AppFabric LABS
Name
Title
Microsoft Corporation

8. Caching

9. What is the Caching service?
A distributed, in-memory cache for applications running in Windows Azure
Simple administration; end-user doesn’t bother with configuration, deployment, or management
Highlight scalable solution with low latency and high throughput
Based on Windows Server AppFabric Caching
Currently available in AppFabric LABS Portal as a CTP

10. Latency Pyramid Memory Network Disk
Windows Azure AppFabric Caching (local cache)
Lowest latency
Network
Windows Azure AppFabric Caching (distributed cache)
Lower latency
Disk
Highest latency
Storage

11. Caching Service in Action
demo
Caching Service in Action
Name
Title
Microsoft Corporation

12. Caching Features
ASP.NET providers for session state and page output caching
Cache any managed object
No object size limits
No serialization costs for local caching
Easily integrates into existing applications
Secured by Access Control

13. Access Control

14. What is Access Control? Used to authenticate and authorize users
Integration Single Sign On and centralized authorization into your web applications
Standards-based identity providers
Enterprise directories (e.g. Active Directory Federation Server v2.0)
Web identities (e.g. Windows Live ID, Google, Yahoo!, and Facebook)
V1 available in production; V2 available in AppFabric LABS

15. Access Control Website Sequence
Browser
Identity Provider
Access Control
Application
1. Request Resource
2. Redirect to Identity Provider
4. Authenticate &
Issue Token
3. Login
5. Redirect to AC service
7. Validate Token, Run Rules Engine,
Issue Token
6. Send Token to ACS
8. Redirect to RP with ACS Token
10. Validate
Token
9. Send ACS Token to Relying Party
11. Return resource representation

16. Using Access Control with a Website
demo
Using Access Control with a Website
Name
Title
Microsoft Corporation

17. Access Control Features
Integrates with Windows Identity Foundation and tooling
Claims-based access control
Support for OAuth WRAP, WS-Trust, and WS-Federation protocols
Support for the SAML 1.1, SAML 2.0, and Simple Web Token token formats
Integrated and customizable Home Realm Discovery
OData-based Management Service to ACS configuration

18. Service Bus

19. Service Bus
Provides secure messaging and connectivity across different network topologies
Enables hybrid applications that span on-premises and the cloud
Enables various communication protocols and patterns for developers to engage in reliable messaging

20. Enabling hybrid applications
Datacenter
Partner
LOB app
Mobile Device
LOB web service

21. Enabling hybrid applications
Datacenter
Partner
ACS
LOB app SB
Mobile Device
LOB web service

22. Enabling hybrid applications
Datacenter
Partner
ACS
LOB app SB
Mobile Device
LOB web service

23. Enabling hybrid applications
Datacenter
Partner
ACS
LOB app SB
Mobile Device
LOB web service

24. Enabling hybrid applications
Datacenter
Partner
ACS
LOB app SB
Mobile Device
LOB web service

25. Name Title Microsoft Corporation
demo
Using the Service Bus
Name
Title
Microsoft Corporation

26. Client Service Service Bus
1. Outbound, bi-directional TCP socket connection
2. Outbound, bi-directional TCP socket connection
3. Route and relay the message, and send it to the service.
Client
Service

27. Service Bus Exchange messages between loosely coupled applications
Network send/receive from any internet connected device
Traverse NAT/Firewall
Message buffering for loosely connected applications
Facilitate direct peer-to-peer connection

28. Roadmap 9/16 PDC10 H1 2011 CTP Access Control enhancements
General Availability
Access Control
CTP
Caching
General Availability
Caching
CTP
Service Bus enhancements
Release
Service Bus enhancements
CTP
Composite App

29. Summary
Comprehensive building block services for developing, deploying, and managing applications
Includes
Caching
Access Control
Service Bus
Available today in Production and LABS

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