Identity

All work and no play makes your PaaS dull! In this lightning-fast screencast you'll see how ACS helped the guys at www.angrytoyfactory.com to handle their authentication needs, without compromising anything in the stunning visuals in their latest creation, the online strategy game…

In this screencast you will learn how to use the ACS Extensions to add sign in, sign up and authorization features to your web site. Furthermore, you wil learn how to invite users from Facebook, Windows Live ID, Google and Yahoo to your web site and manage their access level via roles. The Access…

This screencast shows you how to set up Umbraco 4.7 and install & configure the Access Control Service (ACS) Extensions for Umbraco. The Access Control Service (ACS) Extensions for Umbraco code sample is one extensions to Umbraco 4.7 which enables you to authenticate users from Facebook,…

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…

One of the thorns in the sides of all Internet users is the plethora of accounts they need to keep track of for the various websites they use throughout the day. Most of the folks running these sites don’t particularly want to create an account management system, but they need to just so they can…

Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershowIn this episode:   Vittorio Bertocci (@vibronet), author of Programming Windows Identity Foundation, joins us to talk about Identity and how it relates…

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…

Mike Jones, from the Federated Identity Team, and Kamaljit Bath, from the Interoperability Strategy Team, present an Identity “Mash-up” Federation Demo using Multiple Protocols (OpenID and WS-Federation).Medtronic, PayPal, and Microsoft worked together to produce a multi-protocol federated…