Claims-Based Identity Blog

Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS) 2.0 received a service update. All customers with ACS 2.0 namespaces automatically received this update, which primarily contained bug fixes in addition to a few new features and service changes: ...

It is our pleasure to announce the availability of the first CTP release of the WIF (Windows Identity Foundation) Extension for the SAML 2.0 Protocol ! We heard your feedback about the necessity to have support for the SAML 2.0 protocol in WIF. Today...

We have published an AD FS 2.0 content map wiki page which is intended to act as a content map for all members of the AD FS 2.0 community. This is an on-going effort. Members of the AD FS product team will monitor this article on a regular basis and...

We are very happy to announce the general availability of the April release of Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service! The new version of the Access Control Service includes all the great capabilities and enhancements that have been available...

We have published a step-by-step guide on how to configure AD FS 2.0 and IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager to federate using the SAML 2.0 protocol. You can view the guide as a web page and soon also in Word and PDF formats . This is the fifth in a...

For several years Microsoft has advocated the claims based identity model for more secure access and use of online applications and services. With enhancements to our existing platform, such as Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 and Windows Identity...

We have published a whitepaper on how to enable Single Sign-On to Windows Azure using WIF and ADFS. Here is the abstract: This paper contains step-by-step instructions for using Windows® Identity Foundation, Windows Azure, and Active Directory...

ACS (Azure Access Control Service) recently added support for the OAuth 2.0 protocol . If you haven’t heard of it, OAuth is an open protocol that is being developed by members of the identity community to solve the problem of allowing 3rd party...

We have published a step-by-step guide on how to configure AD FS 2.0 and Ping Identity PingFederate to federate using the SAML 2.0 protocol. You can view the guide in docx, doc, or PDF formats and also as a web page . This is the fourth in a series of...

With the U.S. release of Windows Phone 7 around the corner, I’m excited to share a sample that shows some of our early thinking around how ACS in LABS can be used to enable sign in to web services… from the phone apps. This makes it simple...

We have published a step-by-step guide on how to configure AD FS 2.0 and Shibboleth to federate using the SAML 2.0 protocol. There is also an appendix on federating with the InCommon Federation . You can view the guide in docx format and as a web page...

My name is Peter Kron and I’m a Principal Software Developer on the Windows Identity Foundation team. Over the last year it has been my pleasure to work with Vittorio Bertocci as the technical reviewer for his latest book, Programming Windows Identity...

Microsoft’s Patterns & Practices group recently wrote about three labs demonstrating federation interoperability between WIF and AD FS 2.0 and three other vendor products – specifically, CA SiteMinder 12.0, IBM Tivoli Federated Identity...

Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 has just released its first Management Pack (MP) for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and R2 !! We have worked on it for quite some time, and it is exciting to finally...

We have published a step-by-step guide on how to configure AD FS 2.0 and Oracle Identity Federation to federate using the SAML 2.0 protocol. You can view the guide either as a web page or in docx format . This is the second in a series of these guides;...

We have published a step-by-step guide on how to configure AD FS 2.0 and CA Federation Manager to federate using the SAML 2.0 protocol. You can view the guide either as a web page or in docx format . This is the first in a series of these guides; the...

In order to consolidate our support for our Federated Identity platforms, we are removing the 'Email the Blog Author' functionality of this blog and reccomending that anyone with questions related to the AD FS, WIF, or CardSpace head over to our forum...

Vittorio in DPE (Developer Platform and Evangelism) team has been touring the world evangelizing claims based identity model and WIF. As a result, there is an excellent set of resources for you to learn WIF! Check out the 10-part WIF Workshop recordings...

Trust relationships are of course the sine qua non of AD FS 2.0. Relying Party Trusts or Claims Provider Trusts are necessary before AD FS 2.0 can provide benefit to any organization. That said, the establishment and maintenance of these relationships...

Shibboleth is an open-source software project that provides SAML and WS-Federation protocol support, and is commonly found throughout the higher education market. Since it talks standard protocols, AD FS can be configured to grant access to resources...

Overview Since the AD FS 2.0 release candidate (RC), the AD FS product team got feedback that the experience of setting up AD FS proxy server and making it work with AD FS Federation Service is cumbersome, as it involves multiple steps across both...

It is our pleasure to announce the general availability of Federation Extensions for SharePoint 3.0 package today. This package enables federation for existing SharePoint 3.0 deployments, both Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 and Microsoft Office...

It is our pleasure to announce the availability of Windows Identity Foundation SDK 4.0 package, which is tailored for .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. We heard your feedback on the necessity for out of the box WIF templates that work with Visual...

We are very happy to announce the general availability of AD FS 2.0!   It is our pleasure to offer this release for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 that makes it easier to work across companies, leverage the cloud, and develop secure applications...

We have decided to postpone the release of Windows CardSpace 2.0. This is due to a number of recent and exciting developments in technologies such as U-Prove and Open ID that can be used for Information Cards and other user-centric identity applications...