Back in August I tried to capture in a single view all the relevant aspects for token issuing of that LABS release of ACS: preconfigured identity providers, available issuer endpoints, credential types accepted, token types, and so on. Since then I’ve...

The WIF online documentation just got a brand-new section , which provides a great reference for the WIF configuration elements. It’s very well written & organized, and certainly beats digging in the config schema ! Try it , I am sure you’ll find...

As promised few weeks ago, here there’s the update to the identity developer training kit and the identity developer training course on MSDN . We revved the instructions for the two HOLs about the ACS Labs release, refactoring instructions to match the...

The archaeopteryx roamed the south of Germany in the late Jurassic. It is considered the very first bird species, although many of its features (teeth, wing claws, bony tail) are clearly still dinosaur-like rather than avian. It had the first ever-recorded...

It’s been few months that we pulled the wrap off FabrikamShipping SaaS , and the response (example here ) has been just great: I am glad you guys are finding the sample useful! In fact, FabrikamShipping SaaS contains really a lot of interesting...

As the AppFabric services line up with the look & feel of the SL based Windows Azure portal, the ACS Labs gets a restyling too! Wade tells you everything about the new release here . I love the new look of the ACS portal: the new left-hand navigation...

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...

Today we are releasing an update to the Identity Developer Training Kit ; we are also releasing the first MSDN-hosted Identity Developer Training Course , an online version of the kit where all the labs instructions and setup files are unbundled and individually...

[Yes, another non-identity and non-cloud related post about gadgets: after all, it’s Saturday! But the next one will be a serious post, I promise] Being able at any time to pull out from your pocket a phone capable of capturing megapixel pictures &...

It feels like a year already, but in fact it’s been not even 5 months that Programming Windows Identity Foundation hit the virtual and physical shelves. Last week I was hanging out with Giorgio at a certain library, and out of curiosity I checked if they...

Back in December one pretty important piece of news didn’t get as much air time as it would have deserved: we recently changed the WIF SDK EULA so that you can now freely (and happily) include & redistribute the WIF runtime (& samples) with your...

Long time readers know that, besides being far too interested in weird security protocols, I am kind of a gadget freak . Well, after much kicking and screaming I finally managed to put my fangs on a brand new Dell Venue Pro: and ho boy, was it worth the...

I hope you took some to time to rest last month, because now it’s time to dive right back in! To get you back into your cloud habit, I would suggest a SaaS entrée. It’s already few weeks that the online instance of FabrikamShipping SaaS ( ) has been updated...

Happy new year everyone! I have an enormous backlog of blog posts (and other things) to write, but this is just too big not to share right away. The team I’ve been part of for the last few years, the Windows Azure Platform Evangelism team, is hiring!...

I knooow, for many of you this is already Not News; but I can assure you that if you would have spent the last few days wrestling with the airlines & bad weather combo in EU, combined with the anechoic force field that seems to isolate my Mom’s house...

…just in time for the holidays! The ACS guys just rolled out an improvements-studded update to their service. Some of those improvements include: Improved error messages by adding sub-codes and more detailed descriptions. Adding primary/secondary flag...

In this mid-December the magic of the training kit renews itself! Surf to our MSDN location for a cornucopia of updated labs, new presentations and new demos (with scripts!). For the most territorial among you, you can download on your machine the entire...

Eccomi all’aeroporto di Seattle, dove sono giunto dopo una guidatona all’alba. Nevica da ieri sera, e spero proprio che l’aereo che mi accingo a prendere riesca a portarmi in vacanza come da programma (un paio di giorni a Honolulu per il Thanksgiving...

[thanks to Dan Yang for the translation :-)] 我将讲授两个课程，都在 12 月 2 日，下面是课程安排： Session Code COS-300-1 9:45-10:45 云计算中的身份认证以及访问控制 Identity & Access Control in the Cloud ...

I still need to finish packing for Berlin, but this is so good that it warrants taking a break from socks tetris and jolting few lines on the blog right away . Caleb just released the code of the WP7+ACS demo I’ve shown last week in my PDC session (direct...

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...

One of the parts in FabrikamShipping SaaS I’m most proud of is the integration with PayPal’s Adaptive Payments API. We’ve been collaborating directly with PayPal for few weeks, and specifically with Praveen Alavilli and  Shah Rasesh , for finding...

As it often happens, this year two great events take place in the same time slot: both Tech.Ed Europe and ØREDEV are scheduled for the week of November the 8th. According to the Law of Inviolability of Events’ Time Slots , enunciated in a form or another...

It’s that time of the year again. After few months of Redmond-centric work, in early November I am scheduled to hop on a plane for Berlin and once again partake to the technology feast of Tech.Ed Europe, 2010 edition. I don’t have a really good memory...

Last June, the beginning of the fiscal year for Microsoft, I’ve been asked to add to my identity for developers mission an additional focus: helping ISVs to take advantage of the Windows Azure Platform for writing Software as a Service solutions...