Following on from some of my recent posts on interoperability with open source and choice + community engagement , I wanted to give a quick up on Bill Hilf's recent announcement at OSCON unveiling a new web site giving some new insight into Microsoft...

A new step-by-step interoperability guide detailing configuration for ADFS federation with Oracle's Identity Federation has been published. This is the third step-by-step guide in the series including CA's Siteminder and IBM's Tivoli product. All the...

I know when I think about .Net programming languages the first thing that pops into my head is "C#" followed very closely by "VB.Net" and "managed C++" but now the number of languages I'm going to have to keep fresh in my mind is climbing. eWeek ran a...

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...

So for those of you who read Port 25 , this is old news . However I just wanted to echo Sam Ramji's welcome for Tom Hanrahan as our new Director of Linux Interoperability. Clearly Tom will have lots to do with our continuing work with Novell as well as...

We're in the home stretch getting the OpenLDAP Management Agent prepped and ready for our Milestone 1 release this Friday. The release should contain an installable MSI (remember you need to have MIIS/ILM installed on the same machine) and a zip with...

Dan'l Lewin recently authored a post at AlwaysOn that I thought was an interesting read - it summarized Microsoft's history of interoperability and cross-platform support, and broke down our existing investments in interoperability into the 4 primary...

HP just announced their support for the OpenXML file format as a standard in a position statement on their website. The thing that really caught my attention was HP's position that both OpenXML and ODF can "co-exist interoperably" and "customer's should...

OK, maybe I'm way behind the ball here but I thought I'd share a funny story from implementing the OpenLDAP management agent project . The OpenLDAP interaction is based on the LDAP support in System.DirectoryServices.Protocols in the .Net Framework (version...

I was reading Brian Jones' post this morning on the Open XML SDK tech preview which is a new managed .Net API for programming against the Open XML formats that was announced today at TechEd. There is also a channel 9 interview on the OpenXML formats and...

A couple of interesting updates from around the Identity interoperability world: Positive Response to our Identity Announcements! I posted last week on Microsoft's Identity interoperability announcements at the Interop Las Vegas conference and overall...

Last week was the Interop Las Vegas show - I didn't make it but check out Craig Kitterman's blog for interesting details and tidbits from the show. In particular, Microsoft made a number of interesting announcements around identity management furthering...

As of right now my new blog is open for business. I recently joined Microsoft’s Developer & Platform Evangelism team focusing on interoperability – connecting people, data, and diverse systems - by design. In my previous life I was the lead program...