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Microsoft unveils a bevy of supplemental software


By David Worthington
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November 24, 2009 —  (Page 1 of 2)
LOS ANGELES — Silverlight and Windows Azure headlined Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference last week, but Microsoft also made a number of significant announcements concerning interoperability, identity management, Surface touch technology, and SharePoint.

Microsoft delivered a Java SDK for Windows Azure storage, with additional tools and guidance for deploying the Tomcat application server in Windows Azure. Microsoft has enabled external endpoints to allow applications that are not running on Internet Information Services to receive traffic, said open-source community manager Peter Galli in a blog post.

Microsoft will also allow Azure to be used as “Infrastructure as a Service” with Windows Server Virtual Machine support. SugarCRM, an open-source customer relationship management software maker, announced that it would offer its applications on Azure.

Azure is designed to be open and interoperable from its basic protocols, said Jean Paoli, general manager of interoperability strategy at Microsoft. When asked about portability, he said that Microsoft was participating in the Distributed Management Task Force's cloud computing standards efforts, and it was "trying to make sense" of cloud scenarios. The Distributed Management Task Force is a standards body.

Microsoft also announced an identity management solution that works in the cloud as well as on premises.

Stuart Kwan, group program manager for Microsoft's Federated Identity team, unveiled the final version of Windows Identity Foundation, a product for identity and access management for .NET applications. The technology is a core element of Microsoft's "Geneva" platform, and it is designed to interact with outside identity systems, he said.

Geneva enables identities to be federated to new services in the cloud and in a service-oriented architecture.

Identity Foundation is designed to help developers write identity into an application without being identity experts, Kwan said. "Developers only think about claims and do not need to be concerned about how they get them, as long as they trust who they get them from."

On the desktop, Microsoft's development efforts are focusing on developing touch-screen user interfaces. The company gave each PDC attendee a touch-screen-enabled laptop. Its Surface team developed Microsoft's touch-screen technology.


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11/25/2009 06:10:34 AM EST

SharePoint 2010 External List (BCS) for MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0? If you like the new SharePoint 2010 external list feature and the new Business Connectivity Services (BCS) and want to make use of something similar in SharePoint 2007 / WSS 3.0 to connect SharePoint lists (no web parts) directly to external data sources without any programming or tools, please take a look at: http://www.layer2.de/en/products/Pages/SharePoint-Business-Data-List-Connector.aspx All list features are available, e.g. grouping, lookups. You can start buiness workflow actions in SharePoint, if external data changes. The shareware version is completely free for download and use.

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