We've opened the doors on our experimental Security Token Service today, you can find all the details here.
For the moment, the focus of the STS is on using the InfoCard technology in WinFX Beta 2 to enable authentication with the STS and to obtain a security token from it (SAML 1.1).
Of course, an STS isn't much use without sites or services that use it for authentication, so we've also enabled the Microsoft Live Labs Relay Service to use the STS. Better still, we allow you to register your own site or service and federate with the STS yourself.
Over the coming weeks and months, we are planning a series of incremental feature releases for both the STS and the Relay service.
The official blog for the STS is here; the blog for the Relay is here.
Posted by herveyw at May 31, 2006 12:45 PM