[a huge THANK YOU to my friend Mike Jones for his invaluable feedback and advice about this long and complicated post] If there’s a question that I dread receiving – and I receive it very often nonetheless, even from colleagues - is 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...

[ 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Did you come over here for //BUILD ? It was an absolute blast! They even let me out of my cage for few hours, just the time to present a session on the latest news we introduced in Windows Azure Active Directory and spend some quality time with you guys...

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...

The wait is finally over! This morning we are making available the RTM version of the Identity and Access Tools for Visual Studio 2012 . Together with it, we refreshed all the WIF project samples in the code gallery to take advantage of the latest bits...

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...

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...

We are very excited today to announce our first developer preview of the Windows Azure Authentication Library (AAL). For an overview, please head to Alex’s announcement post on the Windows Azure blog: but in a nutshell, the Windows Azure Authentication...

  Is it a month already? Oh boy, apparently I am in full time-warp mode… Anyhow: as you’ve read , about one month ago I flew to Amsterdam for a very brief 2-days stint at TechEd Europe ( pic or it didn’t happen ). The morning of the day I was going...

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...

Are you excited about the Developer Preview of Windows Azure Active Directory? I sure am! In this post I am going to give a pretty deep look at the machinery that’s behind the Web Single Sign On capabilities in AAD in this Preview, demonstrated...

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...

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...

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...

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).

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...