Anith Gopal

In the last drop, we included a sample that demonstrates how to secure a REST web service with ACS, and a client calling that service running in a different security realm: In this case, ACS is the bridge between the WS-Trust/SAML world (Litware in the diagram) and the REST/SWT side (Adatum’s a-Order app) This is just a technical variation of the original sample we had in the book, that was purely based on SOAP web services (WS-Trust/SAML only):   But we have another example in preparation which is a Windows Phone 7 Client.

The WIF online documentation just got a brand-new section , which provides a great reference for the WIF configuration elements. It’s very well written & organized, and certainly beats digging in the config schema ! Try it , I am sure you’ll find some nice feature you may have missed until now, like the chance of specifying in config which claim type you want to use as role , an all-times favourite of mine.

On January 24th 2011, Windows Azure Team,  released an update to the Identity Developer Training Kit . Windows Azure Team also released the first MSDN-hosted Identity Developer Training Course , an online version of the kit where all the labs instructions and setup files are unbundled and individually accessible. Windows Identity Foundation Guru Vittorio Bertocci also blogged about this announcement  here

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

Quite a lot of you guys are trying to use the “Windows Identity Foundation and Windows Azure passive federation” lab (available in the Identity Developer Training Kit , Windows Azure Platform Training Kit and standalone ) with the latest version of the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio .

If you are on the go, doing groceries or sweating on a treadmill, and all of a sudden you feel that you *absolutely* must  get NOW your dose of claims-based goodness … we’ve got you covered! The oh-so-lucky owners of Zune HDs will be able to get a quick fix in crystal-clear OLED awesomeness via the Channel9 main feed podcast; in few days the direct IdElement feed should appear. That works with pre-HD Zunes as well, or course.

Kim’s session sequel Today the PDC team published a new wave of sessions , and sure enough identity is there! In fact, you’ll be glad to learn that Kim Cameron is going to again walk the stages of the L.A.

Ieri durante la WPC – Worldwide Partner Conference – di New Orleans  (da non confondere con la nostrana WPC – Windows Professional Conference –) sono stati svelati i nomi ufficiali della suite “Geneva” come riportato dal sito di IDentity Management su MSDN e da Vittorio Bertocci . Quindi da ieri abbiamo : Geneva Server diventa Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS).

It’s been a good ride: in all these months I developed some emotional attachment to the code name “geneva”, and like with “indigo” it will take some time for me to get used to the official names. At the same time I am excited to see that the official names are the right ones! Let’s see what changed into what, as described in the forefront blog .

Back in April we launched the Id Element , our Channel9 show on all things Identity . Since then we more or less kept the rhythm of one show per week, with the exception of the burst during TechEd US for covering all the news in Beta2 . Our efforts have been rewarded by the amazing number of viewers & links: thank you! However you may have noticed that the last interview, a tour de force about FIM from the excellent Alex Weinert , took a bit longer for coming out; and a new one is not up yet

Awesome. Remember my article on Claims-based Identity & cloud on the 16th issue of the Architecture Journal? I already knew that it was translated in Portugues

At the RSA Conference 2009 in April, Microsoft’s Scott Charney included a video from a project for the Lake Washington School District in his keynote. The project features a very interesting identity interoperability scenario between the Lake Washington School District’s internal Active Directory and Intand ’s Tandem for Schools SaaS application.