Snow picture

It snowed here this winter. Had an opportunity to take few good pictures.

Adding certificate to your Azure Service

• The following are the steps you need to take to enable SSL
• 1. Create the certificate request. I did this with IIS 7 Manager on windows 2008. For Common name I used my company name (instead of myapp.cloudapp.net).
• 2. I used godaddy (there are several places to get this certificate) to get my certificate. You have to upload the request created in step #1 (It is just a text file).
• 3. If you are the owner of the common name used in step #1, you will get an email to approve the certificate request. You approve it.
• 4. Go back to godaddy site, download the certificate (in my case it was .CRT file)
• 5. For azure, we need .PFX file. In order to create a pfx file from the certificate we just obtained from godaddy, first we need to install this certificate in IIS 7.0. I did this my double clicking on the downloaded certificate and installed it in my personal store. Exported to a pfx (right click and select export).
• 6. In the development environment (VS 2008/VS 2010), selected the appropriate role and added this certificate.
• 7. Uploaded the PFX file to my azure account.