Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) Interoperability

Just a quick note to let everyone know there's a new step-by-step guide available detailing how to achieve interoperability between ADFS and IBM's Tivoli Federated Identity Manager. From the download page:

    "Through its support for the WS-Federation Passive Requestor Profile (WS-F PRP), Microsoft® Active Directory® Federation Services (ADFS) provides cross-domain Web single sign-on (SSO) interoperability with non-Microsoft federation solutions. IBM® Tivoli® Federated Identity Manager (TFIM)—which extends the SSO capabilities of IBM Tivoli Access Manager for ebusiness (TAM)—also supports WS-F PRP."

This is the second paper in the growing library of step-by-step ADFS interoperability guides – The ADFS – CA SiteMinder Federation Security Services paper has also been published.

ADFS can federate identity with any federation service that supports the WS-Federation protocol. The WS-Federation specification was written by Microsoft and IBM and is covered by the Microsoft's Open Specification Promise. The current version of the specification as of this post is 1.2 - Check out the WS-Federation OASIS technical committee page for updates on WS-Federation participation and standards status.

Thanks for reading,

Adam