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Dynamics Duo: Everybody needs an Identity

Ben Riga — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT

In yesterday’s episode we very briefly touched the identity and authentication part of the demo where, on the self-service site, the attendee registers using Windows Live ID. In this episode we go a lot deeper.

Identity and authentication is hard. Simple, scalable and secure login capabilities require a great deal of experience to build and a great deal of effort to maintain and keep running. Windows Live ID provides you a proven solution for building identity-aware applications and is used today by over 460 million users.

In our case, since we’ve integrated Live ID into the system, we let Microsoft manage all the details related to identity and authentication. Live ID assigns each of our users a token that is specific to our site. That means Microsoft lets us know that the person coming to the site is the same person that registered. That token is unique to our site so that from the perspective of the user their privacy is protected (e.g. they cannot be tracked across multiple web sites). In fact, the token is the only thing the site will see. So even though the user may use an email address and password to login to Live ID the site never sees that unless the user explicitly provides that information (as in our example by typing it into a profile page).

The simplicity of this is just amazing. As a developer I just have to register my site with Windows Live ID and then redirect my users to the Live ID login page whenever I need them to be authenticated. Live ID handles the authentication and then redirects back to a page that I’ve registered. You can even brand the Windows Live ID login page that your users will see so that it will appear as if it is your own login page. Nice!

While Windows Live ID does a great job of helping me as a conference organizer to identify and authenticate my conference attendees, we also need to authenticate the Windows Azure site to the Dynamics CRM site so that they can exchange information. We’re obviously not going to have CRM licenses for all our self-service users (the thousands of conference attendees in this case) so we use a certificate on the Windows Azure site to ensure that only that site has access to the CRM data. Once the certificate is on my Azure site, we use a Live ID service account to handle the authentication between the two servers.

This episode is part of a 5-part series. In this series we’ve tried to explain how you can combine the Microsoft Web Platform with Dynamics CRM to quickly build and deploy self-service solutions. The full set of videos include:

Both Girish and I enjoyed recording this series. We hope you enjoyed them as well. If you have comments or suggestions for other topics, feel free to add comments below or email Girish or me (Ben) directly.

ReachLive - The Future of Communications

SkiExtreme — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:02:00 GMT

IntelePeer, a Microsoft partner, has developed the ReachLive application that voice enables web applications. ReachLive combines IntelePeer's AppworX programmatic telecommunications platform with Microsoft's Live Services to provide communications features. The video describes the application, the archtiecture , the power of communications as a service (CaaS), and a demo.

Follow this link to get started with Azure: http://www.microsoft.com/azure/sdk.mspx

The Dynamics Duo talk about Dynamics CRM and SharePoint

Ben Riga — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:46:00 GMT

In this segment Girish and I talk about how Dynamics CRM integrates with SharePoint. We begin with a little guidance for where you might use one over the other and where they work well together. And they sure do go well together. “Separated at birth” is how I put it in the video. :) Girish’s demo shows a custom SharePoint page. Not many people know that SharePoint can be stylized using CSS to build sites that look nothing like plain vanilla SharePoint. This is a pretty good example of that.

We use a SharePoint List Web Part to pull data from CRM to show a list of CRM users and the hours from their time sheets. This was pulled directly from CRM using web services. We also show how could use that data to display a dashboard style gauge using Dundas Gauge for SharePoint. You can pull CRM data directly into SharePoint to build a dashboard. You can then pull that dashboard into the CRM web client (minus the SharePoint chrome). By pulling it into the web client it automatically shows up in the Outlook client. Speaking of Outlook; in the last segment we talked about customization but didn’t show the Outlook client so Girish gives us a quick tour of how that works also.

Each of the forms in CRM are URL-addressable. Girish puts that to good use in showing how you can pop a CRM form directly from within SharePoint. He also shows how CRM lights up automatically when you have Office Communicator installed leaving room for some interesting Unified Communication scenarios. We should probably do an episode on UC soon.

The segment wouldn’t be complete if we didn’t show some code. Girish built the list part using the Visual Studio Web Part project template. The code to pull in the time sheets into a list web part is about 10 lines of C#. The hardest part was doing the authentication. CRM provides a plug-able authentication mechanism and 3 different auth options out of the box. On-premise deployments will likely use Active Directory, while CRM Online uses Windows Live ID and finally if you’re deploying in a partner-hosted mode you’ll use form-based authentication. Girish shows how as an ISV you can build your application once and take all of those options into account. After that the code you write is portable across all the deployment options.

Windows Live ID Client Authentication

Dariusz Parys — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:35:00 GMT

Mit dem Windows Live ID SDK erhält der Anwendungsentwickler verschiedene Möglichkeiten Benutzer mittels der Windows Live ID zu Authentifizieren. Eine dieser Möglichkeiten ist es aus einer Windows Anwendung heraus die Benutzer zu authentifizieren und so weitere Windows Live Dienste nahtlos in der Anwendung zu integrieren. Dieser kleine Screencast zeigt wie man die Windows Live ID Client Authentifizierung einbindet.

Viel Spaß, Dariusz

Test attachments, tags

JonathonW — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:38:32 GMT

Can I attach files and add tags in the Coffeehouse?

TechNet Radio: Leveraging the Windows Live Platform for Your Organization

erickingfrog — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:22:41 GMT

Listen to TechNet Radio and learn how you can leverage the benefits of the Windows Live platform for your organization. We discuss Windows Live ID; Microsoft Silverlight Streaming; and the Windows Live Admin Center, which allows you to manage a slice of Windows Live. We also have our May 2008 Security Bulletin

Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Angus Logan – Senior Product Manager, Windows Live

Nam Ng – Senior Security Strategist

Bill Sisk – Response Communications Manager, Trustworthy Computing

Windows Live ID

ashishjaiman — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:53:18 GMT

The Windows Live ID service (formerly known as the Passport Network) is an identity and authentication system that you can use with your own Web site or client application.
In this screencast I will show the various ways you can integrate LiveID in your applications and also a demo on how to do it.
You can find more information in the following links.

http://dev.live.com
http://www.dotnettikihut.com/
http://blogs.msdn.com/angus_logan/
http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde

Windows Live ID

ashishjaiman — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:37:09 GMT

http://dev.live.com
http://www.dotnettikihut.com/
http://blogs.msdn.com/angus_logan/
http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde

Lynn Ayres: What is Windows Live ID?

Charles — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:58:13 GMT

Windows Live ID (formerly known as Passport) is the identity and authentication system for Microsoft online services. Currently, over 380 million users have credentials that work with Windows Live ID. Windows Live ID Web Authentication is a new offering that enables you to add Windows Live ID authentication to your own Web site (details can be found here).

A while back, Catherine sat down with Lynn Ayres to discuss Windows Live ID developer offerings. The conversation starts out with Lynn describing how she got into software (turns out Lynn is an avid online gamer J), and then transitions to Windows Live ID around 00:03:17 and how it relates to Passport (00:04:19). Windows Live ID scenarios are discussed around 00:07:00.

Demos start at 00:08:32, and include other Windows Live developer offerings – like the Windows Live Contacts control and the Windows Live Spaces Photo control; the specific code that uses the new Web Authentication (an HTML iframe element) can be seen around 00:13:24; the Windows Live ID Client SDK is demonstrated around 00:16:05.

A few notes regarding changes that have occurred since this video was recorded:

· Windows Live ID Web Authentication has been released, and the documentation can be found here.

· The Windows Live ID Client SDK is still in alpha (you can learn more about the alpha refresh here) and will be released later this summer.

· In the Web Authentication demo (around 00:13:37), Lynn was accessing our integration/test environment (http://login.live-int.com). This functionality is now available in the production service and the URL should be modified accordingly (remove “-int” from the domain name: http://login.live.com)

· You can get an application ID for Web Authentication here. The connect.microsoft.com site Lynn referred to (around 00:14:13) was for the beta.

Lynn Ayres is a Program Manager on the Windows Live ID team.

The interview was conducted by Catherine Heller, Windows Live Technical Evangelist.

And remember, http://dev.live.com is the source for all things developer-related around Windows Live!