Windows Azure Connect
Windows Azure Connect is a mechanism you can use to set up IPsec connections between machines in your own domain (on-premise) and web or worker roles running on Windows Azure. If these connections are set up, you can address your role instances as if they were in your own network/domain. This feature enables you to accomplish the following tasks:
Managing and administering web and worker roles with existing management tools
Building a distributed application where Windows Azure roles work seamlessly together with your on-premise resources, such as printers, databases, legacy systems, or other critical resources that play a viable role within your distributed application
Domain authentication, name resolution, or other domain-wide actions
Consider the following scenario. The Geotopia worker role is built and configured to access a Microsoft SQL Server database on-premise. This is the only part of the whole solution outside the cloud. The reason for this requirement is...
