Hosted Service and On-premise clients

Question

1. Can a single instance of a hosted service authenticate several instances of a client application (different users) running on-premise based on Windows Live Id?

2. What should be the recommended communication and messaging be between the service and its multiple clients?

Answer 1

Are you asking about SSO between your hosted service and on premise applications? and both are running on windows live authentication?

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Answer 2

Hi,

I think you can consider Azure ACS with Windows Live identity provider for achieveing your goal. Here you can find more info:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/WAZPlatformTrainingCourse_IntroToACS2

About second question, if you want to send message between service and client? I think ServiceBus Queue may meet your requirement.

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/how-to-guides/service-bus-queues/

BR,

Arwind

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