There are two ways about domain controller, Active Directory Federation Service and Windows Azure Connect, perhaps.
I will read below about Windows Azure Connect . But now I do not have ideas at all, sorry. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg433016.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg454720.aspx http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazureconnectivity/thread/fc858c4f-1e0f-4ea7-8276-d596ba3a5f06 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windows_azure_connect_team_blog/archive/2010/12/10/domain-joining-windows-azure-roles.aspx http://engineermemo.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/vm-role-%E3%82%92-active-directory-%E3%83%89%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%81%AB%E5%8F%82%E5%8A%A0/ Shinichiro Abe On 2011/05/11, at 9:22, Karl Wright wrote: > I seem to recall that Azure is available for free though MSDN, which > means it is likely to be affordable. Can you find out more details? > How do you go about setting up a semi-permanent instance of (say) a > domain controller? > > Karl > > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Shinichiro Abe > <[email protected]> wrote: >> What about Windows Azure? >> It seems that it can deploy MS products and use java, >> I do not know the details though. >> Isn't it relevant? >> >> Regards, >> Shinichiro Abe >> >> On 2011/05/10, at 20:08, Karl Wright wrote: >> >>> I've pretty much given up on getting access to the testing >>> infrastructure I originally built for ManifoldCF that is now owned by >>> qBase. I was wondering if anyone had time or energy to research what >>> it would take to build such an infrastructure using Amazon cloud >>> servers. Basically, we'd need at least one active directory domain >>> controller instance for each configuration (LM, NTLMv1, NTLMv2 NTLM2 >>> session), and a repository server per domain (or more, depending on >>> whether we can get some of these repositories to coexist with each >>> other). I would start with a SharePoint instance and CIFS share on >>> each such server, and we can grow from there. >>> >>> What we'll also need is some kind of allocation mechanism so that >>> anybody can run tests anywhere, provided they have internet access, >>> and not collide with *other* people running tests. Any ideas? >>> >>> Karl >> >>
