How to: Create or Modify a Windows Azure ACS Service Namespace

Open an Internet browser and visit the Windows Azure Management Portal.

Log on to the Web site using a Windows Live ID. If you do not have a Windows Live ID, click Sign up to create one for yourself.

After you are signed in with your Live ID, you are redirected to the Management Portal page. On the lower-left-hand side of this page, click Service Bus, Access Control & Caching.

To create a new service namespace at the global (Windows Azure) level, click Access Control in the tree on the left-hand side. Then click New from the toolbar at the top of the page. In the resulting dialog, Access Control (ACS) is already selected as the service for which you want to create the service namespace.

In the Choose a Service Namespace: box, type a name for your new service namespace. Note that each service namespace must be globally unique so that it can be identified by the service.

Note
You do not have to use the same service namespace for both client and service applications.

Click Check Availability. This will check that the name that you selected for your service namespace is valid and available. If it is not, you can enter a different name.

If you want to select a region and connection pack size, you can do so in the available dropdowns. Then click OK.

The system now creates your service namespace and enables it.

You might have to wait several minutes as the system provisions resources for your account.

To modify a service namespace, click the service namespace you want to change. Then click Modify in the toolbar at the top of the page.

In the resulting dialogue, in the Available Services pane, you can add or remove the services for which this namespace is valid, for example, Service Bus or Cache.

Important
You can only customize the service properties for services being added. At this time you cannot modify the properties of service namespaces for existing services.

Note
If you clear the checkboxes for all services in the Available Services pane, the service namespace is deleted.