Text of the post here . I didn’t mention it yet since I am still getting it readied up, but I am in the process of moving this blog to my own domain; which is why for some time you’ll see some posts by reference instead of by value details on a future post

If you guys had a chance of seeing the Windows Azure AD session at //BUILD, or more recently at the P&P Symposium , you already know that the previews of ASP.NET Tools Fall update included a feature to easily configure a Web application to use Windows Azure AD; it is what added the “Enable...

[if there was ever a post where you NEED to understand my post disclaimers, this is it. This is my PERSONAL blog, what I write here are MY OWN personal elucubrations, largely written on nights and weekends instead of engaging in healthy activities, and is by no mean official guidance. Please refer to...

In short: we just updated the list of claims we issue from Windows Azure AD to provide the UPN of the user ( “user@domain ”) in the Name claim ( http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/name ). If it is present, WIF automatically assigns the value of the Name claim to the Name property of...

Writing this blog post or dowloading Adera Episode 3 ? Why do I even ask, I already know the answer :-) Today I want to tell about one of the patterns behind Windows Azure Active Directory. I call it the multitenant STS pattern, which is a pretty descriptive name IMO and seem to have caught up internally...

Welcome to a new installment of the “addressing the most common questions about Windows Azure AD development” series! This time I am going to tackle one question that I know is very pressing for many of you guys: How do I get role and group membership claims for users signing in via Windows Azure AD...

[you do remember that this is my personal blog and those are my own opinions, right? ;-)] After the releases we’ve been publishing in the last few months, I am sure you have little doubt that REST is something we are really interested in supporting. The directory uses OAuth for all sorts of workloads...

[ WARNING : this post has no business value whatsoever, and that is by design. Please do not take any of this post as something you’d do in your applications. I got a new toy and I am just goofing around with it :-)] If you’ve been reading this blog through the years, you know I am a big fan of gadgets...

Folks, this is big. Check out the announcement that went out yesterday on the Windows Azure blog. In fact, I am going to quote it here in its entirety! Here goes: Identity Management and Access Control are anchors for virtually all critical processes, collaboration and transactions. To that end, it was...

The JWT handler class diagram, spanning 3 monitors :-)   Today I am really, really happy to announce the developer preview of a new extension that will make the JSON Web Token format (JWT) a first-class citizen in the .NET Framework: the JSON Web Token Handler for the Microsoft .NET Framework 4...

Three months ago we released the first developer preview of the Windows Azure Authentication Library . Today we are publishing a refresh of the developer preview , with some important (and at times radical) improvements. We already kind of released this update, albeit in stealth mode, to enable the Windows...

Thanks to the improvements introduced in the latest refresh of the developer preview of Windows Azure Active Directory, we are finally able to support a scenario you often asked for: provisioning a Windows Azure Active Directory tenant as an identity provider in an ACS namespace. In this post I am...

Hi all! I am briefly emerging from my yearly time off to notify you that my good friends Nick & Nate just published the latest episode of the Cloud Cover show, featuring your furry PM (I waited until the how’s recording to shave my goatee!) chatting with the hosts about all things Windows Azure AD...

By now I am sure you heard that the Windows Azure Active Directory Developer Preview is out . We announced so many interesting news that you might just have missed an interesting fact: as part of this release we made available a couple of samples developed on… something other than Visual Studio Namely...

Hi all! I am typing this post from Shiphol, Amsterdam’s airport, where I am waiting to fly back to Seattle after a super-intense 2 days at TechEd Europe. As it is by now tradition for Microsoft’s big events, the video recording of the breakout sessions are available on Channel9 within 24 hours from the...

After long months spent in my dark PM-cave in Redmond, it’s finally conferences season again! Last week I had the pleasure of presenting WIF 4.5 at TechEd Orlando and meet many of you; this Saturday I am flying to Amsterdam, and Tuesday I am scheduled to deliver a repeat of Stuart’s session on Windows...