CloudShare Grows With You! – Announcing Multiple Environments

Now your CloudShare account can grow with you and your organization.  Have as many environments as you need when you need them.  Assign environments to developers.  Control who sees what environments.  Grant and remove access with ease. CloudShare is very excited to announce the ability to have multiple environments under a single account.
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Using Claims Authentication to Configure Multiple Authentication Providers in a CloudShare Environment

CloudShare’s very own Chris Riley recently shared an environment of mine in a blog post about network orchestration. This environment leverages some exciting new capabilities in SharePoint 2010: namely Claims Authentication in a SharePoint 2010 web application and the ability to configure multiple authentication providers in a single zone.
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Designing Content Management in SharePoint

I’m not just a CloudShare’er, I’m also an ECM pro, hence all those crazy acronyms after my name IOAp, ECMp, CAPTUREp etc. Before joining CloudShare, and discovering the power of Dev/Test in the Cloud, my job was to help companies stand-up SharePoint for the specific purpose of Enterprise Content Management (ECM). Even before SharePoint I was a part of the ECM elite with a group called AIIM ( www.aiim.org ). But what does it mean to be an ECM Pro?
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Cloud Folders – quick upload into CloudShare

We’re excited to announce “Cloud Folders”, which enables each CloudShare user to quickly upload their work (code, content, software) into CloudShare machines and move files between machines and between environments.

What is a Cloud Folder?
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Network orchestration: VPN, Federation, Integration

Part of the power of CloudShare Environments is that once setup, it’s not much different than having the machine right in-front of you. The primary difference is that you access your machine via a browser or RDP connection. And it’s more efficient and convenient then a physical box. This also means that much of what you are used to doing with your local machines; you can do with your CloudShare VMs.
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