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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:22 AM

WWSAPI RC bits for downlevel platforms are available!

Not many people are aware of our commitments to ship WWSAPI to downlevel platforms. Nikola just sent out an email annoucing the availability of the RC bits for downlevel platforms: https://connect.microsoft.com/WNDP/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=18901
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009 10:21 AM

One thought on testing

I have been in the testing discipline for almost 8 years. Over the years there have been different forces to push me into development. Somehow I stayed, despite the fact many people outside and even inside Microsoft don’t give much regard to testers.
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Monday, May 18, 2009 1:19 PM

LiveID support in WWSAPI on Win7

In Windows 7, LiveID can be used with WWSAPI in two scenarios: 1. SSPI over TCP ( WS_TCP_SSPI_TRANSPORT_SECURITY_BINDING ) with the default SPNEGO package : on both client and server 2. HTTP Negotiate header authentication ( WS_HTTP_HEADER_AUTH_SECURITY_BINDING
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Monday, May 18, 2009 12:11 PM

More on HTTP header authentication

My previous post on header authentication comparison between WWSAPI and WCF mentioned the impersonation level. Here is a bit more detail as people still seem to be caught by surprise due to this difference. I mentioned that WCF client could set the impersonation
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Friday, May 15, 2009 10:52 AM

WWSAPI to WCF interop 9: secure conversation bootstrapped by Kerberos AP-REQ token

In my post on WWSAPI federation support , I explained how to set up secure conversation on the WWSAPI client to work with a WCF server using WSFederationHttpBinding. In this post, I’ll show how to use secure conversation without federation. Secure conversation
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009 3:00 PM

One note about running the examples using HTTP

It turns out that with the example code as is, starting a server at an HTTP or HTTPS address does not require the process to be run as an admin (elevated on Vista and Win7). No namespace needs to be reserved either. This is because the code uses localhost
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Friday, May 01, 2009 12:32 PM

A simple way to run the WWSAPI Kerberos over SSL samples

The Kerberos over SSL samples (like the calculator one ) demonstrate WWSAPI mixed mode security that matches the WCF’s KerberosOverTransport authentication mode. In this mode, the Kerberos AP-REQ ticket is wrapped in a WS-Security header for client and
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