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This is the news that so many have been waiting for: the new version of Access Control Service finally hit RTW stage! Stuart Kwan, Principal Group Program Manager on the Cloud Identity Platform team and recurrent guest on the IdElement, gives a four-minute introduction to the service and…

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…

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…

The last lab of the workshop covers the use of WIF on Windows Azure, demonstrating in practice how to cope with NLB sessions, volatile application URI, dynamic configuration, metadata generation, tracing and so on. Labs from the Identity Developer Training Kit

The last session of the training covers the use of WIF in Windows Azure. After a quick introduction to Windows Azure and the infrastructural differences between web roles and on-premises deployment, the session provides practical advices on aspects of distributed development such as handling NLB…

This lab explores the idea of delegated service call via ActAs tokens: the exercise from the Web sites lab shows how to do that from an ASP.NET to a WCF backend, while the one from the WCF lab focuses on flowing identity info through a chain of services calls.The first exercise of the WCF lab does…

This session describes in detail the difference between passive and active scenarios, specifically around the confirmation method for toekns (bearer vs. holder-of-key).The WIF object model and WCF integration are discussed, with special attention to similarities to what has been seen for the ASP.NET…

This session explores in depth how WIF tackles the sign-in scenario.After a general intro to the WIF configuration element, the session describes how WS-Federation is used for driving the various browser redirects which ultimately constitute the sign in experience. Most of the time is spent digging…