Justin Smith's Blog
Today I’m excited to announce a major update to ACS. It’s available in our labs environment:...
Date: 08/04/2010
Now that we have a mgmt tool, I can provide you with a template so you can setup the ACS part of the...
Date: 11/15/2009
I’ve received several requests regarding ACS and Windows Live ID integration for websites. This post...
Date: 11/15/2009
The November 2009 CTP of ACS integrates with Active Directory Federation Server v2. ACS can act as a...
Date: 11/14/2009
Since releasing the new version of ACS on Nov 5, we’ve received quite a bit of feedback that we...
Date: 11/14/2009
The Access Control Service uses a new community protocol and format that are now posted on google...
Date: 11/05/2009
In my last post I outlined the changes that were coming in the Access Control Service. Since that...
Date: 10/07/2009
We are in the process of making some key design changes to the Access Control Service (ACS) for our...
Date: 09/28/2009
Over the past few months, several people have asked me how to accept client certificates on a...
Date: 07/31/2009
For some reason the slide deck I presented at Mix didn’t show up on the Mix 09 website. If you are...
Date: 04/28/2009
Today I caught up on some press material on Azure Services. For those that haven’t seen it, the...
Date: 03/26/2009
This week at Mix I demonstrated a new experimental client API (TokenClient) for interacting with the...
Date: 03/25/2009
The Geneva Framework FAM is the simplest way to experience ACS and ASP.NET. My friends in platform...
Date: 02/12/2009
My co-worker Jenny Lo wrote a good post on how to get started with .NET Services. If you are...
Date: 01/16/2009
In my previous post I described at a high level a simple scenario that leverages the Access Control...
Date: 01/16/2009
To the already initiated claims disciples, the Access Control Service is a multi-tenant Resource...
Date: 11/07/2008
Today we announced the CTP release of .NET Services! For quite a while now, I have been working on...
Date: 10/27/2008
Yesterday we released a new version of BizTalk Services (R12). Over the next few weeks I'll be...
Date: 07/16/2008
One of the little known features of BizTalk Services is it's support for metadata. There's a sample...
Date: 04/08/2008
This week I started a new job at Microsoft - I've moved from Developer and Platform Evangelism to...
Date: 03/22/2008
I just posted a new screencast on Channel 9: https://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=386824....
Date: 02/28/2008
The identity provider in BizTalk Services is a way for applications to delegate identity and access...
Date: 02/27/2008
A little while ago I ran into an interesting set of errors that may be of interest to you. Consider...
Date: 02/15/2008
I'm not prone to publish non-techie topics on this blog, but I can't help this one :). I'm often...
Date: 02/13/2008
My friend Vittorio has posted that MySpace will be talking about WCF at Mix 2008 (see it here). This...
Date: 01/31/2008
I thought it might be mildly interesting to document the lifecycle of a demo. Over the next week or...
Date: 01/22/2008
Previous posts have talked a bit about PictureServices. Now I'd like to run through what it took to...
Date: 01/18/2008
Following on the heels of Steve Maine's post about namespaces in Syndication objects (Feeds, items,...
Date: 01/16/2008
Today I updated PictureServices to work with the RTM release of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET...
Date: 01/14/2008
I've received several mails about PictureServices and RTM. As some of you know, the Syndication API...
Date: 01/14/2008
This isn't my normal area of interest, but I found this page on microsoft.com fairly interesting....
Date: 01/08/2008
It seems that the RSS/Atom article I wrote for MSDN magazine was just published:...
Date: 12/23/2007
This is one of the more interesting videos I've seen in a while:...
Date: 12/14/2007
I just got back from TechEd Barcelona. It was my first time visiting Barcelona. I gave several...
Date: 11/14/2007
I'm not sure if my grammar for the title of this post is correct. I offer my apology to those that...
Date: 09/07/2007
If you do a web search on the term, you may find definitions that are less than flattering. That was...
Date: 08/30/2007
One of the cool parts of WCF in the .NET 3.5 is the simplified support of the REST architectural...
Date: 08/22/2007
A few days ago we released a new sample called Picture Services. As the name implies, this sample...
Date: 08/20/2007
I'm not one to make this blog a place for personal posts, but I have to make an exception today....
Date: 08/17/2007
Jeffrey Richter told me once that a CPU was a terrible thing to waste. I don't know if he was the...
Date: 08/01/2007
I often ask this question to people, and I've come to expect a wide array of answers. Last week I...
Date: 07/30/2007
I spent this weekend tinkering around with the JSON messaging capabilities of WCF new in the .NET...
Date: 07/24/2007
I got a question via email today that forced me to look back through some older emails for the...
Date: 07/18/2007
I just saw a mail introducing an alpha release from IBM - an MQ series custom channel. It appears to...
Date: 07/16/2007
A little while ago, HongMei Ge sent me around a dozen new security samples. After reviewing them,...
Date: 07/10/2007
WCF in .NET Fx 3.5 introduces several types that simplify the creation of services that use the...
Date: 07/02/2007
Last year I presented at a conference in Tennessee. It's hard for me to remember the topics I talked...
Date: 06/27/2007
Channel9 has attained tremendous momentum over the past few years. In my view, Channel9 is a great...
Date: 06/19/2007
A recent commenter on this blog indicated that the TOC of Inside Windows Communication Foundation...
Date: 06/18/2007