Microsoft Azure Blueprints
The azure team at Microsoft has put together quick scenario based diagrams to help put together solutions, from BI to DevOps and Live Media Streaming scenarios, you can review them by clicking here.
The definitive guide to form based web authentication
If you are using form based authentication, here is a great stack overflow post that provides some guidelines on how to implement form based authentication properly: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/549/the-definitive-guide-to-form-based-website-authentication