...or I clicked "Publish" instead of "Save Draft". Anyway, the net result is that a post was erroneously published in draft format; since it was during the lunch break, it had the time to propagate and be reaggregated in a number of feeds. Luckily...

  Few weeks ago the good guys at the IDPeople magazine interviewed me on the topic of identity & cloud computing: you can access the text online or the pdf here (requires free registration). During IDWorld they also recorded a brief video about...

These days practically everybody I meet on campus is preparing to fly to Atlanta for TechEd, with the notable exception of Steve Marx (it seems I may be losing our bet after all). Atlanta holds a special meaning for me. Back in 2004 I won the Circle...

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...

Last Thursday we launched The Id Element, our new Channel9 show about all things Identity: we are amazed by the views we got in such short time (over 14K for the 2 videos combined already!), and we hope we’ll deserve your trust by delivering quality content...

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...

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...

Have you booked your trip to Vegas yet? Amidst all the excitement for Windows Phone 7 Series, Silverlight & the cloud, if you know how to search the MIX content you’ll find two identity pearls: Using Windows Identity Foundation For Creating Identity...

If you are on the go, doing groceries or sweating on a treadmill, and all of a sudden you feel that you *absolutely* must  get NOW your dose of claims-based goodness … we’ve got you covered! The oh-so-lucky owners of Zune HDs will be able to get...

This week Steve was at Mobile/Cloud Connections in Vegas presenting on WP7 and Windows Azure. Wade kindly invited me to co-host Cloud Cover for this week , and I happily jumped on the opportunity to shed more light on the new ACS and spread the Sesame...

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

Oh boy, I am am really getting old. While I was compiling today’s yearly blog roundup I *knew* there was something missing, and then it came to me: somehow I forgot to blog about the article that the amazing Wade and I wrote about ACS back in December...

Among the flurry of announcements today, I am sure you didn’t miss David’s announcement of the new release of the Windows Azure platform Training Kit ! What you may have missed is the new identity content, straight from the identity+Windows Azure labs...

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...

Did you think we uncovered all our cards at PDC ? Nope: that was mainly (but not only) our developer story, given the atmosphere of the conference, but in our sleeve there's ample space for ITPros too. It's hot news from this morning that we made available...

I am evil. Only a bad person blogs about his or her presence at a conference only AFTER it took place: and this is all the more inappropriate from me if you consider that the guys were so incredibly kind to put my long face on their home page ! My only...

Just few hours ago Wade announced the new release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone , with support for ACS . You can already see the bits in action from the stage of the TechEd keynote – nonetheless – from where a very elegant Drew Robbins...

I am sure you guys are familiar with O’Reilly’s Deal of the Day initiative: well, today Programming Windows Identity Foundation is up! You can find it at http://oreil.ly/HmcIjp , just for today.

Wade just announced the  release of the January 2011 update of the Windows Azure Training Kit and associated MSDN course : it is chock full of new stuff, go check it out ! One not-so-well-known tidbit is that there’s a significant portion of shared...

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!

Friendly faces everywhere / Humble folks without temptation . More seriously, this is one of those rare occasions where you could meet with the guy who wrote (or spec’ed) the exact feature you are interested into… and they are all here for answering your...

Welcome to the last installment of the “Fun with FabrikamShipping SaaS” series. The “fun” blogs are meant to help you walking through the demo; once we are done with that, I’ll finally start to talk about what makes the demo tick: architecture, code and...

If you always wondered what is it like to attend IDWORLD, now you have a nice chance to get a taste of it. Back in November the guys at wisemedia recorded brief interviews with 20some speakers and made them available at http://www.idworldonline.com/index...

[Update: reposted per the blogs.msdn.com update] Greetings from Melbourne! It’s 4:00am here and I just jumped out of the bed, today I the flight back to Redmond. If you know me you know I am not a morning person, you can imagine the mood I would...