New Guide Back in August we released a guide that explained how to use WIF for adding to your web role SSO and claims-based identity capabilities via WS-Federation. That guide contained a number of workarounds that were made necessary by the limitations...

Microsoft is a recognized thought leader in Identity: since the Geneva announcements wave in PDC08, we opened a dialog with developers for helping you to reap the benefits of claims based identity with the .NET framework. And today we RTM’ed WIF ! :)...

Hello from PDC09 Day 1 keynote! It is my pleasure to let you know that Bob Muglia just announced the general availability of Windows Identity Foundation . Get it while it’s hot ! Almost exactly 2 years ago I had the honor of giving the first sneak-peak...

In the same spirit of experimentation shown here , in the last year I’ve been using another fairly original presentation technique. The original aim was to mitigate my being chronically late in turning in slides for events but it turned out something...

You have been waiting for it: it is finally here . We have just released WIF RC, you can download it here . Note how nicely the logo reflects WIF’s status of member of the .NET family… i love it! This release has very few breaking changes, but it is...

Riding the wave of the WIF RTM joy , Here there’s a bonus for you: an exclusive interview with Venky, Program Manager Lead in the Sharepoint team, where he describes how claims-based identity is helping Sharepoint to address its identity challenges. ...

Let’s close the WIF RC day with the November refresh of our Identity Developer Training Kit . The new version of the Identity Developer Training Kit ported forward the three WIF labs (web site, web services, ASP.NET Membership provider) to the RC, and...

Today the .NET Services team released the first CTP that reflects the changes announced back in September : you can read about it in their team blog and in Justin’s blog and experiment with the service here . You know, it’s kind of a big deal! The power...

Last Saturday I had the pleasure to spend 1 hour at the phone with Carl & Franklin from .NET Rocks : you can listen to the results here . We mainly chatted about why claims are good for you: while the first parts are mostly introductory content, we...

PDC is slowly wrapping up, and it has been an awesome one. Identity was all over the place, and the interest you guys have show for the topic makes the months of behind-the-scenes hard work well worth it! Before resuming the “serious” steams of news around...

Few hours ago Cameron Skinner and Doug Purdy were featured in Bob Muglia’s keynote. They showed great demos, where identity played a no-drama role: Cameron used WIF and ADFSv2 for enhancing SSO capabilities to his MVC application, Doug benefitted by that...

The Federated Identity team finally unwrapped the RC version of Windows Identity Foundation: as you have come to expect, the Id Element did some fact gathering for you . Enjoy! The release candidate of Windows Identity Foundation is here! Chock...

That’s right, the big sample you know and (hopefully?;-)) love has been updated for taking advantage of WIF RC. Get it while it’s hot at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/FabrikamShipping

Following the route of FabrikamShipping , the Claims-Driven Modifier Control is now ready to influence the behavior of your federated sample websites… using WIF RC :-) enjoy!

Yes, you read it right :-) Tomorrow at 1:00pm PST Stuart Kwan and I will appear LIVE on the new unscripted broadcast that the Channel9 guys are doing from the PDC floor; we are going to be grilled by Scott Hanselman , who presumably will want to know...

  November is already here: can you believe it? The last few months have been a crescendo of activities, and now that PDC is just behind the corner they just turned in a tornado (alliterating in English is, well, weird ). I can’t really tell you...