Identity

CionSystems currently hosts active directory aministration tools on Windows Server 2008 R2 in IIS on premises. CTO Zubair Ansari talks with ISV Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle about how the company plans to support for Active Directory Federated Services 2 and the move to hosted AD…

"The Internet was born without an identity". -Kim Cameron.With the growing interest in "cloud computing", the subject of Identity is moving into the limelight. Kim Cameron is a legend in the identity architecture and engineering space. He is currently the chief…

Identity is a rapidly evolving field. From WS-Federation, CardSpace, and SAML to OAuth and OpenID, the identity landscape has been in considerable flux over the last few years. There are many identity providers competing to represent your users, such as Google Accounts, Windows Live ID, and…

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…

I’ve been busy.  For the past 5 months or so I’ve been working on something completely different.  I moved out of the Dynamics world and into the Azure world . In July I was asked to help out with the PDC planning.  David Aiken’s team was doing a great job with technical…

This screencast shows how AppFabric Access Control (AC) can be used to provide identity federation, trust delegation, service authorization and integration with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), to control access to services based on Windows Azure. In the demo,…

In this podcast, Jon Udell chats with Vittorio Bertocci, author of Understanding Windows CardSpace. The discussion traces the evolution of the identity metasystem, explores the rationale for CardSpace, and considers the unsolved problem of public online identity for individuals.  …

You can count on there being some great sessions in Open Space at MIX. Tim Kulp sent me a link to his blog with a good idea for a session. He wants to discuss how to use the Microsoft technology stack to build applications to HHS/CMS standards. One great thing about the Open Space format is that you…

Last week we discussed OpenID, one of the identity technologies you should care about.  Today we'll talk about "Information Cards", another open standard for identity on the web.  We'll fill out the series by discussing BBAuth and Live ID in future posts. The quickest…