[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.]

As announced at TechEd North America we have released PowerShell cmdlets which wrap the management API of Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control service.

Read about this in the blog post by Vittorio Bertocci.

This is a very useful addition to to your Access Control service management options that makes it easy to streamline and automate management actions.

As a reminder, we recently released major enhancements to the Access Control service which make it easy to enable single sign-on (SSO) in web applications.

In addition, we have a promotion period in which we are not charging for Access Control usage for billing periods before January 1st, 2012.

If you have not signed up for Windows Azure AppFabric and would like to start using Access Control, be sure to take advantage of our free trial offer. Just click on the image below and get started today!

The Windows Azure AppFabric Team.