Identity Access

The Demystified Series is pleased to present a collection of screencasts on Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS). Keith Brown, a contributing editor for MSDN Magazine and co-founder of PluralSight, hosts the first two segments. In this “AD FS (Part Two)” session, Keith drills into how…

The Demystified Series is pleased to present a collection of screencasts on Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS). Keith Brown, a contributing editor for MSDN Magazine and co-founder of PluralSight, hosts the first two segments. In this “AD FS (Part 1)” session, Keith highlights the…

The Demystified Series is pleased to present a collection of screencasts on Windows Authorization Manager (AzMan). Keith Brown, a contributing editor for MSDN Magazine and co-founder of PluralSight, states that this series provides, “…what may be your first look at Authorization Manager – a…

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…

The second lab of the workshop explores some of the patterns discussed in the former section. One lab demonstrates how a generic web site can be enhanced with identity provider capabilities regardless of the authentication technology it uses, simply by adding an STS page. Another lab shows how to…