Access

ACS may be a PaaS service, but the programmatic route is not the only way to is heart: there are many situations in which developers, administrators and users interact directly with it. The new release of the Access Control Service features a management portal you can use for managing your access…

Have you ever tried to handle authentication for a mobile app, regardless of the platform? Every provider has its own protocol, which forces you to write and maintain a lot of different implementations. Writing protocol code on devices might not always be easy, and the fact that web protocols are…

If you want to understand what the Access Control Service is really about, look no further: this is the interview you want to watch. Justin Smith, Principal Program Manager Lead for the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service, worked on ACS from its very first version.  From that…

FabrikamShipping SaaS is an end to end sample scenario which demonstrates how to take advantage of the Windows Azure platform for developing and running software as a service solutions. Join Vittorio for a 30 minutes grand tour of the demo structure, the patters it implements, and the ways in…

Join Justin Smith, Program Manager on the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS) team, on a whirlwind tour of the new features of today's Labs release of ACS. Just to whet your appetite, here's a list of some of the news touched on in this video: Support for identity providers…

This screencast walksthrough creating an ASP.NET MVC application that uses ACS to broker authentication with Windows Live ID, Google, and Yahoo!.

Dick Moffat is a professional Access developer who has been using Access 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 to build databases that run on Windows but live in SharePoint. We have a chat about how you can leverage your existing Access skills and bring your current databases into SharePoint to make…

Attend this upcoming, free Windows Azure webcast series and learn how Windows Azure AppFabric fits into the Microsoft cloud strategy and see simple demonstrations of both Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control and Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus. Take a look at Windows Azure AppFabric…

In this video, Eugenio gives us a tour of the Claims Identity and Access Control guide and a closer look into Web SSO, one of the five scenarios covered in this guide:Claims-Based Single Sign-On for the WebThis scenario  focuses on how to implement single sign-on and single…

Back in October, Eugenio gave us an overview of the Claims Identity and Access Control guide. At that time the team was just getting started with the project. You can see that video here. We are thrilled to announce the availability of the final version of this guide. In…