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All work and no play makes your PaaS dull!In this lightning-fast screencast you'll see how ACS helped the guys at www.angrytoyfactory.com to handle their authentication needs, without compromising anything in the stunning visuals in their latest creation, the online strategy game…

The release candidate of Windows Identity Foundation is here! Chock-full of improvements driven by YOUR feedback, WIF RC gives a very good idea of how the final release will look like.Vittorio went to visit Sidd, Govind and Sesha to learn about the new features and explore the rationale…

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…

Caleb Baker, Sr. SDET on the Federated Identity team, and Claudio Caldato from the Interoperability team present an interoperability scenario demo with Geneva Server and Sun’s OpenSSO Enterprise (demo presented at JavaOne 2009). By the way the final name for "Geneva…

In this episode Alex Weinert, Group Program Manager, provides an in-depth interview around Identity Management in the enterprise. He begins with an overview of the current identity synchronization technologies on the Microsoft platform, MIIS and ILM 2007, and then pushes into a whiteboard…

Claims-based identity allows you to externalize authentication and authorization code, moving it out of your applications, so that you can focus on the functionalities you want to implement rather than worrying about plumbing details. In this first IdElement screencast Vittorio shows you…

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…

Last week Donovan Follette wrote about the work Intand did with Microsoft, a project, for the Lake Washington School District, that's based upon the use of Microsoft code name Geneva Server, Windows CardSpace Geneva and Intand’s PHP application using the Zend Framework’s information card…

In this episode Caleb Baker, Sr. SDET on the Federated Identity team, discusses Geneva Server beta 2 and SAML 2.0 interoperability. Caleb was instrumental in testing Geneva Server with Sun’s OpenSSO Enterprise and Novell’s Access Manager products. The whitepapers for these interop tests are…