The Id Element

Jorgen Thelin, Senior Program Manager, looks after key identity services in Microsoft such as Windows Live ID and the Microsoft Federation Gateway (MFG). In today's interview Jorgen describes the role of MFG, and touches on the many wonders it enables: using AD accounts to SSO (single…

In this episode Alex Weinert, Group Program Manager, provides an in-depth interview around Identity Management in the enterprise. He begins with an overview of the current identity synchronization technologies on the Microsoft platform, MIIS and ILM 2007, and then pushes into a whiteboard…

Claims-based identity allows you to externalize authentication and authorization code, moving it out of your applications, so that you can focus on the functionalities you want to implement rather than worrying about plumbing details. In this first IdElement screencast Vittorio shows you…

In this week’s episode of the ID Element Vittorio interviews Donovan Follette… as the guest! Donovan is a senior technical evangelist and a host for this very show: he worked on identity since he joined Microsoft in 2005, and is a well known expert in the ADFS community. In this …

Oren Melzer, SDE on the Federated Identity team, has been working with Windows CardSpace for the past three years. In this episode, Oren enumerates the key new features available in CardSpace Geneva beta 2 in terms of improvements in the user experience, managed card interoperability and what’s…

In this episode Caleb Baker, Sr. SDET on the Federated Identity team, discusses Geneva Server beta 2 and SAML 2.0 interoperability. Caleb was instrumental in testing Geneva Server with Sun’s OpenSSO Enterprise and Novell’s Access Manager products. The whitepapers for these interop tests are…

In this episode Donovan sits down with the Intand President, Bryan Otis, and CIO, Scott Otis, along with Vijay Rajagopalan, Principal Architect, Microsoft Interoperability Strategy, to drill into how Intand enabled their PHP application to support information cards. This prototype project, for…

In this episode Jan Alexander, Sr. Program Manager, Federated Identity, takes a deep dive into the powerful, all new claims transformation language in Geneva Server beta 2. This language is used in claims processing, acceptance and issuance, and Jan provides a primer on the flexibility and…

In this episode Matt Steele, Sr. Program Manager for the Geneva Server, calls out a number of great new features in the beta 2 release. These include managing  Geneva Server with Windows PowerShell, automated monitoring for federation metadata changes, Information Card management via Group…

Chuck Reeves is the Principal Development Lead for Geneva Framework, and has been involved in the development of federated identity products from the very start. In this chat & whiteboarding session Vittorio interviews Chuck about what makes the Geneva Framework tick: the claim programming…