8 October 2011 0 Comments

A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control (2nd Edition)

Check out the sections related to federating SharePoint –  specifically logout to compliment your readings from the SharePoint whitepaper.    Summary | Contents | Overview – Contents of the Guide , Audience Requirements , System Requirements , Application Server , ADFS , Active Directory , Client Computer | Community | Future Plans | Feedback and Support | Authors and Contributors | Related Titles patterns & practices Developer Center September  2011 Summary Imagine a world where you don’t have to worry about authentication. Imagine instead that all requests to your application already include the information you need to make access control decisions and to personalize the application for the user

3 July 2011 0 Comments

Catch up on new features of Windows Azure in the past month

We are continuing our innovation in the Windows Azure and releasing at a frequent cadence of high-value new features and enhancements to our public cloud services.  Today at TechEd I’m excited to make a few new announcements: For AppFabric , this past month we have just released the Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service, and major enhancements to the Access Control service . At TechEd today we announced two new capabilities for both developers and IT Pros: We released today new features and enhancements as part of the Windows Azure AppFabric May CTP which adds to the Service Bus more comprehensive pub/sub messaging and enables new scenarios on Windows Azure platform.   These scenarios include: Async Cloud Eventing – Distribute event notifications to occasionally connected clients (e.g.

5 February 2011 0 Comments

Our next project – Claims based Identity and Access Control

Not surprisingly maybe, security in general, and authentication & authorization in particular, is a consistently highly rated concern for our customers.

29 December 2010 0 Comments

Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS) v2 – Error Codes and How To Troubleshoot And Fix It

ACS Error Codes page is invaluable resource when you need to troubleshoot and fix errors related to Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS) v2. It is designed to concentrate in one place the following information: Error number, Error Message, and How To Fix columns

19 December 2010 0 Comments

Video: What’s Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS) v2?

I am testing another approach of carrying out main messages of what ACS is about. Here is a short video I recorded.

13 December 2010 0 Comments

{CODE PARTY}개발자를 위한 News+ 10개 링크 업데이트 입니다. 2010-12-13일

Hot News 1 . {CODE PARTY} 12월 세미나가 지금 접수중입니다.

1 December 2010 0 Comments

Windows Azure Access Control Service Sample Demonstrates Support for OAuth 2.0, Windows Identity Foundation

ACS (Azure Access Control Service) that is part of Windows Azure AppFabric recently added support for the OAuth 2.0 protocol . OAuth is an open protocol that is being developed by members of the identity community to to allow third party applications access to data without providing passwords

10 March 2010 0 Comments

Getting WCF 4 Release Candidate Documentation

Although I didn’t include it in the release candidate announcement, the online documentation collection for WCF has also been updated. While you can navigate between the different framework versions for the reference documentation, some people seem to be having more trouble finding the conceptual documentation and samples, which are not as tightly linked together. Here are the starting pages for those document collections as well as a direct link to download all of the sample source code.

4 January 2010 0 Comments

Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2 virtual images

Here’s a great way to get up-to-speed with Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010…download the complete virtual images and get started! Choose one of the three virtualization options below: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Hyper-V) Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Windows [7] Virtual PC) Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Virtual PC 2007 SP1) Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate provides an integrated environment of tools and server infrastructure that simplifies the entire application development process….( read more )

5 November 2009 0 Comments

A New Community Protocol and Token Format Supported by the Access Control Service

The November 2009 CTP release of the Access Control Service includes support for a new community protocol and token format. Their names are Web Resource Authorization Protocol (WRAP) and Simple Web Tokens (SWT)

30 January 2009 0 Comments

.NET Services Planned Downtime: 1/30/2009, 1PM PDT – 1/30/2009, 2PM PDT

The .NET Services and the account provisioning portal for SQL Data Services and .NET Services will be undergoing planned maintenance on January 30th, 2009, starting at 1PM PDT, and ending at 2PM PDT. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience!   The .NET Services Team

27 January 2009 0 Comments

.NET Services Outage (1/27)

We are currently experiencing an outage that is affecting the Workflow Service, Access Control Service, Management Portal, and Service Bus.