Geneva

You will learn about the major investments in claims-based identity in SharePoint 2010. You will understand how to use SharePoint in an heterogeneous identity environment for both sign-in and services (SOA). We will discuss the new identity architecture, learn about all the components and how to…

For years, Windows has supported a rich, built-in authentication and authorization framework. If you can assume clients will have a Windows account, you can rely on Windows integrated authentication to validate client identity, and use impersonation, ACLs, and role-based security to authorize…

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…

In this week’s episode of the ID Element Vittorio interviews Donovan Follette… as the guest! Donovan is a senior technical evangelist and a host for this very show: he worked on identity since he joined Microsoft in 2005, and is a well known expert in the ADFS community. In this …

Oren Melzer, SDE on the Federated Identity team, has been working with Windows CardSpace for the past three years. In this episode, Oren enumerates the key new features available in CardSpace Geneva beta 2 in terms of improvements in the user experience, managed card interoperability and what’s…

Ruchi Bhargava, Sr. Development Lead on the Federated Identity team, has been working with Windows CardSpace from the beginning and has been involved in all aspects of the product's development. In this episode she highlights some of the challenges end users and developers had with Windows…