WIF

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,…

Jorgen Thelin, Senior Program Manager, looks after key identity services in Microsoft such as Windows Live ID and the Microsoft Federation Gateway (MFG). In today's interview Jorgen describes the role of MFG, and touches on the many wonders it enables: using AD accounts to SSO (single…

Join this conversation on Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) and Access Control Service (ACS) with two Microsoft Evangelists, Vittorio Bertocci and Brian Prince. WIF enables .NET developers to externalize identity logic from their application, improving developer productivity, enhancing application…

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…

This short session explores the architectural implications of using claims for authorization purposes