Episode 149 – Vittorio Bertocci on Windows Azure Control Services

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Vittorio Bertocci about Windows Azure Access Control Services

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Links:

• Vittorio’s blog: Vibro.net
• Announcing ACS Cmdlets
• Windows Azure Platform PowerShell Cmdlets
• Vittorio’s events on Channel 9
• Vittorio’s Amazon author page
• Azure AppFabric Access Control Services

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Resources

• Start-Automating now has a Youtube channel with a ton of ShowUI example videos
• Jeff Hicks posted his PowerShell Deployment Wizard script
• Hal’s TechEd 2011 session: PowerShell Best Practices from the Field
• Mass download script for TechEd videos
• What is .NET? Here are answers from:
• sadukie
• Sean Kearney

Tips

• The Scripting Guy has a great post about splatting, featuring Jonathan and his yo-yo
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• Don Jones says lose the “str” in “strComputer”