A part of the current hotfix package (6.0.21) is the brand new mechanism for synchronizing web farm servers. This mechanism does not use URL notifications so it eases web farm configuration. Also, it will continue to work when any of your web farm servers change its internal IP address (for example, when you make a VIP swap on Windows Azure).

I’m really happy to announce the brand new provider for the CMS.IO namespace. This feature enables you to store all files in your Kentico CMS web application to Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service). This service is part of the Amazon web services cloud service. This blog post guides you through the installation and configuration of this provider.

Your site is developed and tested. It´s time to deploy it to a production server and launch it. Before you do that, please read the following top five hints, which will help you keep the site running and avoid security issues.

For several months I have been writing a series about the basics of Windows Azure. This post is the last one from that series and we will focus on databases in Microsoft cloud, on a service called SQL Azure.

I hope that most of you are enjoying Christmas holiday in these days but you should make sure that all your servers are up to date. Yesterday, 29th December, Microsoft released security bulletin and security update which fixes four security vulnerabilities in ASP.NET. One of them is rated as a critical vulnerability.

When you search for System.IO namespace in the code of Kentico CMS 6 you won´t find it anywhere. Instead of that, you will find a little different namespace - CMS.IO. In this post I will describe why we changed this and what it means for you. I´ll also finish my talk about storing data in Windows Azure because it´s highly related to the CMS.IO namespace.

Hello again, it´s time for another deep dive into Windows Azure. Today’s menu features Windows Azure storage. We will look at the possibilities of storing data in the whole platform, what is different from the standard Windows server and how to leverage new storages which Windows Azure offers.

After a longer delay, I’m bringing you the next post to in the series about the Windows Azure platform here on DevNet. This time we will discuss statelessness in Windows Azure. This is the most basic requirement for your application to be able to run there. I will explain the challeneges related to this topic in details and describe how you can solve them.

Bryan Soltis from Bit-Wizards released few days ago really interesting blog post about how to host multiple Kentico installations within the one Windows Azure role. You can read it here.

Are you ready for the next portion of information about Azure? I hope you are. Today I will focus on the configuration options of Windows Azure, where and how you can set up your Azure application and how to turn logging on and off. Also, I will share some recommendations about how to configure Kentico CMS 5.5 R2 and what the situation will look like in 6.0.

Today we will discuss developing for the Azure platform. I will tell you what you need to start development, something about the local development environment and also a few words about Windows Azure API.

Hi there, with this post I’m starting a new series here on the DevNet portal about Windows Azure. I will write about Azure in general and also about Azure integration in Kentico CMS. In this first post I will introduce the Azure platform from a development point of view. I will tell you a few words about the capabilities of Windows Azure, what you can use in Azure and what we decided to use when we started to support Kentico CMS on Azure.