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Question

Any help is appreciated to achieve the following scenario

From within the intranet, or outside the enterprise, I would like enterprise users to upload and download files to Azure Storage. But the catch is, they can only  do upload/download after getting validated by Active Directory. How can we achieve this? I have a vague idea...Any specifics is appreciated.

1. Azure Storage to store data/files, make the security private.

2. Azure Access Control Service which trusts ADFS of enterprise

3. WCF service to upload/download data/files which does it only after ACS authenticates....

This is broadly what I think should be done..! Am I wrong..? Is this doable?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Hi,

You can use ADFS to authenticate agains Azure applications.

The "Claims Based Identity & Access Control Guide" on CodePlex has a scenarios for this: http://claimsid.codeplex.com/

If you use a WCF service hosed in Azure web roels you will have to pay about $86 a month for hosting, dubble that if you need high availability.

It may be possibel to host your services on-premise and have them upload to Azure Storage you could use the AppFabric service bus to expose the endpoints outside the enterprise.

Regards,

Alan

 

 

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Answer 2

Hi Alan,

Thanks for the response. Let me check and get back!