Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Lee Holmes

Jeffrey P Snover

Bruce Gordon Payette

Daniel Pravat

Alexandru Naparu

Filippo Seracini

Armando Moran Saavedra

David Benson Cross

Rahim Maknojia

Kenneth M Hansen

Narayanan Lakshmanan

Hitesh Raigandhi

Jonathan Marshall Rowlett

Hemant Mahawar

Miriam Rosenberg

Nathan Stanley Burkhart

Christine Moeller

Constantin Sorin Oprea

Manoj Kumar Ampalam

George Xie

Jim Truher

An interface, through which functionality of a cloud computing infrastructure can be accessed, can create defined endpoints through which such an interface is accessed, with such defined endpoints limiting the functionality accessible through the interface to only allowed functions. An elevate function can, through a secure key exchange protocol, receive appropriate assurances and can, in response, remove the functionality limitations of the endpoint, thereby enabling unfettered access to the cloud computing infrastructure. Such unrestricted access can be limited in duration, which duration can be established in advance, or agreed-upon through the key exchange mechanism.

Mutually authenticated adaptive management interfaces for interaction with sensitive infrastructure

A workflow scripting system is described herein that combines the features of workflows and scripts by automatically translating between the two models. Using the system, a script author can create workflows on the fly using familiar scripting language, and a workflow author can use scripting steps to perform actions. Workflows run in this manner can be setup to execute in their own process to improve robustness or efficiency. Operations in an enterprise environment frequently take a long time and are subject to interruptions. By adding reliability concepts of workflows to a shell environment, users of the system can write scripts to address common needs of large-scale computing environments. Thus, the workflow scripting system blends the available resources provided by workflow and scripting environments to provide a host of powerful, advanced capabilities to IT personnel.

Automatic transcoding and semantic adaptation between scripting and workflow systems

Method and system for direct access of language metadata are disclosed. In an implementation, the method includes receiving commands from a user to modify language metadata of a programming language. The metadata is modified based on the command and the modified metadata is utilized as a feature in the programming language at runtime.

Direct access of language metadata

An input port for a computer system may retain potentially authenticable requests for processing while removing other connection requests from an incoming queue or request pool. The input port may continue to receive new requests even during a denial of service attack, allowing potentially legitimate requests to be processed. In a typical embodiment, a first in, first out buffer may be used to receive and process connection requests. When the buffer is full, any request that comes from a device having a previous connection with the computer system may be retained for authentication, while removing requests that come from unknown devices. Some embodiments may retain a list of known devices associated with administrators or other known users, and the list may be updated as those users are authenticated.

Denial of service attack resistant input port

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