[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...

It’s official: I am getting old. I was ab-so-lu-te-ly convinced I already blogged about this, but after the nth time I got asked about this I came to find the link to the post only to find pneumatic vacuum in its place. No joy on the draft folder either… oh well, this won’t take too long to (re?)write...

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...

After much abstract thought (very well received! thank you! :-)) it’s time to get back to some good old C#, or you’ll think I’ve gone soft :-) Say that you have a Web application protected via claims-based identity. Say that your application occasionally reaches out to a backend service, and that the...

[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...

Few minutes ago, while exchanging mails with some colleagues, I suddenly realized that although we gave various heads-ups about the change from BootstrapToken to BootstrapContext  when moving from WIF v1 to the .NET Framework 4.5. we didn’t really provided the details of the new model in a search...

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...

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...

You asked for it, loud and clear, and we worked hard to make it happen: today it is my honor & privilege to announce that from now on you can get the WIF 1.0 runtime from its official NuGet package . There you go, short and sweet. I wanted to write this blog post for a looong time happy WIF1.0-chaining...

During the lunch break of the day before my session at TechEd Orlando I went to inspect the room, knowing that at 12pm I could notice things that would be perfectly invisible to my still-asleep-self the day after ( as I abundantly advertised , my session was at dawn. Can you hear me, TechEd schedulers...

You asked for it, we got it done We just published on the download center a new drop of the Identity Developer Training Kit , updated to use WIF 4.5 and the new tools for VS2012 RC. The new release contains just the absolute essential to wrap your head around the new object model and the new tools. Namely...

It seems that there’s an inverse relationship between the amount gamma-aminobutyric acid in my synapses and the amount of blog posts I produce… or, in other words, when the jet lag prevents me from sleeping I fire up Live Writer In today’s gift from Morpheus I want to tell you about one of the most common...

Marc strikes again! After the WIF 1.0 runtime , today it’s the turn of the SDK. The Windows Identity Foundation 1.0 SDK is now available on WebPI ; once again, search for “identity” and you’ll find it (together with the runtime).

Howdy folks! FYI: tomorrow at 2pm I am going to be at the Microsoft Press stand to do some book signing. Although you might not be especially interested in getting my scrawls, you might be interested in getting a free copy of Programming Windows Identity Foundation I am told that the first people showing...

One of the key differences between using claims-based identity for one enterprise app and an app meant to be used on the web has to do with which identity providers are used, and how. Of course there are no hard and fast rules (and the distinction above makes less and less sense as the enterprise boundaries...

Howdy! Last week I had the pleasure of increasing my curliness by a 3x factor thanks to the moist Orlando weather, which I visited for delivering a session on what’s new with WIF in the .NET framework 4.5 . I also took advantage of the occasion for having detailed conversations with many of you guys...

They’re out, folks. Few minutes ago Marc flipped the switch on the refresh of the WIF tools for the RC of Visual Studio 2012 . There’s not a lot of news, this was mostly a stabilization effort; if you want to learn about what the tools do, the original posts we did for Beta are still valid. Also, last...

It’s been a couple of years that we released the first samples showing how to take advantage of ACS from Windows Phone 7 applications; the iOS samples, released in the Summer,  and the Windows8 Metro sample app last Fall demonstrated that the pattern applies to just any type of rich clients. Although...

The latest CloudCover episode features yours truly endlessly rambling about the new WIF tools for Visual Studio 11 Beta . If you want to see the tools in action, rather than reading through yesterday’s posts , tune in ! Thanks to Wade for having me again on the show , it was a blast also: make sure you...

You asked for it, and there it is. The Windows Identity Foundation runtime is now available on WebPI for your deployment pleasure, just search for “identity” and it will pop out. Thanks to Marc Goodner for making this happen!

Weather is not that good this Sunday afternoon, and the wife warned me already yesterday that today she was going to catch up with the AI class ; hence, I think I am going to break the blog-silence and spend some time describing BlobShare , a little jewel my DPE friends quietly released last week (and...