Identity and the Windows Azure Platform
Whether you are looking at reusing your on-premises identity for SSO in the cloud or you are searching for a way to handle access control for your REST services, in this unit you will find useful indications on how to address your identity challenges with Windows Identity Foundation in Windows Azure or taking advantage of the Access Control Service.
Lessons
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Introduction to the .NET Access Control Service
The .NET Services Access Control Service (ACS) is a service designed to secure REST web services. ACS allows a REST web services to integrate with both simple clients and enterprise identity technologies using a single code base.
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Federated Authentication in a Windows Azure Web Role Application
This hands-on lab provides step-by-step guides for hosting in Windows Azure (WAZ) a Web application accepting identities from an external identity provider: with the authentication functions being performed by an external identity provider, you are now
free to focus on the business function of…
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An Introduction to Claims-Based Identity
Claims-based identity is a simple but powerful concept, which acts as guiding principle for all of Microsoft's identity products. In this short video Vittorio gives a concise introduction to claims-based identity. After reviewing some of the problems that
developers encounter with traditional…
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What is the Access Control Service?
In this video Justin Smith, program manager for the Access Control Service, goes through the basics of the service and hints at the main features offered by the current release.
