Yesterday we released the list of sessions for PDC2010. I am dazzled to be finally be able to say it: I have the honor to be the speaker for the identity breakout session! I had the pleasure to present at PDC09 as well, and speaking at PDC is always a Big Deal; but if you know how PDC10 is going to work...

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 that audiences actually like :-). The technique is...

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 of the bits publicly available back then. A lot...

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 the content (there’s more to come!), let me...

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. This is an unusual interview for the Id Element...

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 everything about Identity! Instructions: To watch...

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 decision when he didn’t have to worry about authentication...

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 of what at the time we called the ADFS “2” project...

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 of the claims-based approach is now within reach...

  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 all we’ve been cooking for your identity geeks out...

Kim’s session sequel Today the PDC team published a new wave of sessions , and sure enough identity is there! In fact, you'll be glad to learn that Kim Cameron is going to again walk the stages of the L.A. Convention Center, with a “2nd part” of last year’s famous S+S Identity Roadmap session . Here...

… pun intended :-) As of this morning you can secure a seat at the hottest Microsoft event for developers: I am naturally talking of PDC09 ! Identity is going to be big this year too: just to give you a taste, in the first batch of sessions we published this morning you can find a breakout on Windows...

In the last few months I ended up on the wrong side of a camera a few number of times, but I was far too busy with the other deliverables to track when and where the results were going to be published. Now the videos are probably a bit out of context, but for completeness I’ll list them anyway. In reverse...

You know, I don't watch videos too often. I absolutely love them, but the level of attention they require is something that I rarely have the luxury of conceding: plus I really miss many things that I can easily get when reading text, such as varying the speed & depth or full text search. If you...

[ update The Training Kit version announced here is now obsolete: today (2/6/2009) we announced the availability of the February Update of the Azure Services Training Kit . Read about this update here ] You all heard the news: Windows Azure here, Azure Services there ... now it's time to get...

Identity is everywhere at this PDC2008! After the keynotes and the many breakouts, let me introduce you to the Booth. We are in the Big Room, on your right, and we are easily recognizable thanks to 1) the big "Identity for software+services" signage and 2) the fashionable pistacchio shirts we drape ourselves...