Claims-Based Identity Blog

There are some known issues with using the WIF SDK on VS 2010 RC that do not exist with VS 2008. When VS 2010 is released, we expect to refresh the SDK to resolve these problems, but in the meantime, we have some simple guidance for using the SDK with...

As you might have heard from Kim , Vittorio , Mike , or from the Identity TechNet or End to End trust sites, we recently released the U-Prove Community Technology Preview (see the announcement in Scott Charney’s RSA keynote ). U-Prove is an innovative...

In this post I will show how to setup your Relying Party Trust issuance policy to create name identifier in assertion. For AD FS 2.0 the name identifier is yet another claim but you may want to generate name identifiers if you plan to: · Use SAML 2...

What do the following three questions in the AD FS 2.0 forums have in common? · Reducing default steps in Sign-In process and changing default look & feel in Sign-In process in Geneva server · How to authenticate a non-Active Directory user...

AD FS 2.0 RC has a number of enhancements and additions for troubleshooting/diagnostics of failures and errors that occur when processing token issuance requests. Imagine a scenario A user accesses a Relying Party (RP) which redirects to AD FS 2.0 federation...

Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 makes it possible to deploy a federation server and begin issuing tokens quickly by following these steps: 1) AD FS 2.0 software installation 2) Initial configuration 3) Add a relying party trust 4) Add...

In this post we cover a new feature introduced in the Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS ) 2.0 RC - support for token issuance authorization. One of the main functions of the product in this and previous releases has been to provide a centralized...

We are happy to announce several updated federated identity product releases that are available NOW! ·           Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 (previously known as Geneva Server) release candidate...

We are glad to announce that Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) RTW for Windows Server 2003 is available NOW! This release supports both Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Windows Server 2003 R2 platforms and following seven languages: English (en-us), German...

Windows Identity Foundation support for Windows Server 2003 SP2 is coming in December 2009 . This package will be in English (en-US) and six other languages: German (de-DE), Spanish (es-ES), French (fr-FR), Italian (it-IT), Dutch (nl-NL), and Japanese...

For developers familiar with WCF, a WCF client is already federation aware. By configuring a WCF client with a WSFederationHttpBinding or similar custom binding, it is possible to enable federated authentication to a service. WCF takes care of obtaining...

We are very glad to announce that Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) has shipped! The official announcement of WIF RTM is made by Bob Muglia yesterday in his Keynote speech at PDC’09 Conference in Los Angeles. We are very excited to make this announcement...

We are happy to announce that Release Candidate (RC) of Windows Identity Foundation (previously known as Geneva Framework) is available NOW! It comes with lots of great new features and with comprehensive set of samples in the WIF SDK. This...

The new Identity and Access products wave from Microsoft brings a new, claims-based, approach to identity and access space. This new approach is based on the principles defined by the Identity Meta-System. Windows Identity Foundation (WIF), which is part...

Interoperability of identity systems is an important consideration for a large percentage of customers. With this in mind we chose to participate in 8 weeks of SAML 2.0 testing, which is was conducted by the Drummond Group Inc. As previously announced...

Our friends in the DPE team recently published on Code Gallery three Windows identity Foundation samples: · FabrikamShipping . This is a fairly complete example of how to use the Windows identity Foundation for addressing common tasks in the development...

With the release of Beta 2 comes a set of samples specifically targeted towards CardSpace developers. Whether you are a web developer or a C++ programmer, you are sure to learn something new in our CardSpace Geneva Beta 2 Samples . The samples pack...

This Monday, Microsoft made several announcements at the Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans. Among these announcements were the official names for the Geneva products currently in Beta. The three components of Microsoft “Geneva” have the...

The Beta 2 version of “Geneva” has many features that improve the deployment of Geneva platform for our enterprise customers, like the Group Policy-driven provisioning of Information Cards or the administrative policy of card usage that we talked about...

One obstacle that administrators looking to deploy information cards in an enterprise will inevitably face is getting information cards to their users. Nobody wants to have to send an email to their users saying that in order to access a web service,...

Reducing your login steps one click at a time One of the major goals of CardSpace “Geneva” is to streamline the login process and make it as quick and easy to understand as possible. In the first beta, as Oren outlines in his post , by building the...

Imagine this: you have been following this blog and have decided to try “Geneva” Beta 2. You have gone to the connect site and downloaded the "Geneva" platform components, installed them, configured the server, used the framework to write a claims-aware...

With all the new “Geneva” Beta 2 products introduced at TechEd you may wonder how long it is going to take you to learn these new technologies. Well, the DPE team and the Geneva team thought about this and are happy to offer a developer focused training...

“ Geneva ” Step-by-Step Guides and Virtual Machines The Step-by-Step guides and virtual machines that were used at the Tech Ed "Geneva" hands on labs and sessions are now available for download. You should find these helpful i f you were unable to...

As announced at TechEd, Geneva has just released its Beta 2 bits! These are now available for download from here . There is a lot that is new and updated in Beta 2! Here is a list of some of the things that you will be able to try out and give us feedback...