January 23
It’s easy to base your understanding of an API or service on the documentation, a few samples from the SDK or blog posts from all the experts but, unfortunately, these don’t always paint a complete picture. When it comes to identity, you really need to try to gain an understanding of the overall problem space [...]
Posted by herveyw . Filed under AppFabric Access Control Service |
January 18
Take care, that’s my view.
ACS can accept identities using several mechanisms – a SAML security token signed by an X.509 Certificate, a Simple Web Token signed with a shared secret, and a form of name/password. The last one causes the confusion, especially since you can authenticate using a name/password or build a Simple Web Token [...]
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November 7
Get it at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=defd2019-a61f-4327-9332-6a4b6103527a
Posted by herveyw . Filed under Claims |
October 22
The Windows Identity Foundation is nearly finished and ADFS 2 is heading toward the end-game, the music is about to stop and so it must be time to pick a chair for the next “wave”. I’ve been interested in Windows Azure for some time, in particular learning how to design, build and operate an internet [...]
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August 8
Vittorio posted the first sample in what we hope will be a series that show the use of the Windows Identity Foundation in Windows Azure. As you will observe, it’s a little clunky on the WIF Beta2 release but we’ve already made a number of changes to the product to reduce the complexity and have [...]
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July 16
Welcome to a blank slate.
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