Como habia escrito en un post anterior, aqui dejo un video donde muestro Windows Identity Foundation y Windows Azure Access Control Service. En este ejemplo muestro lo siguiente: Creo un sitio web de cero y agrego un identity provider de prueba (Add STS Reference) Me falla una cosa con certificados y hago un poco de... read more
During today’s TechEd keynote Drew Robbins presented Fabrikam Fiber, a solution to the problems of a fictional cable provider. The demo showed how enterprises can take their existing IT systems and extend them to the cloud to handle new demands such as a globally distributed, mobile workforce. For the scenario, Johnny and JPG worked closely... read more
Keeping up to date can be daunting, but by using the Windows Azure Training Kit resources you can stay ahead of the curve. The April Update contains two new labs. The first is Authenticating Users in a Windows Phone 7 App via ACS, OData Services and Windows Azure, and the second is for the Windows... read more
Announced last week, the new ACS includes a several new features: single sign on from business and web identity providers, easy integration with Microsoft’s development tools, support for both enterprise-grade and web friendly protocols, out of the box integration with Facebook, Windows Live ID, Google and Yahoo, and more. What’s the best way to get... read more
The myToDo sample has been updated to show how to use ACS for brokering authentication to web identity providers, how to host a custom HDR page and how to handle token-based registration in a very, very simple scenario. This sample application demonstrates a simple list management and sharing application for Windows Azure. This ASP.NET application... read more
You’ve built your site on Umbraco, the developer-friendly CMS. You would like to provide a single-sign on experience for your users, whether using a social identity provider such as Facebook, Windows Live ID, Google, or Yahoo, or an Active Directory or other provider with federation capabilities. Now you can. Easily. Made available in conjunction with... read more
Over 85,000 active installations and growing, the Umbraco open source CMS is the choice for many organizations. Now its simplicity can be just as easily enjoyed on the Windows Azure platform, allowing you to focus on the experience, and not the infrastructure. Announced at MIX 11, the Windows Azure Accelerator for Umbraco is designed to... read more
During the last couple of years we have helped companies deploying federated identity solutions using WS-Fed and SAML2 protocols with products like ADFS, SiteMinder in various platforms. Claims-based identity has many benefits but as every solution it has its downsides. One of them is the additional complexity to troubleshoot issues if something goes wrong, especially... read more
The scenario In a SharePoint federated scenario, the user session has the same validity time as the SAML token. If the user is inactive during a certain period of time, the session must expire. Implementation in SharePoint To achieve this behavior, SharePoint provides a configuration called LogonTokenCacheExpirationWindow. The way it works is detailed in the... read more
If you want to achieve a login user experience like the one shown in the following screenshot, then keep reading… Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control 2.0 has been released last week after one year in the Labs environment and it was officially announced today at MIX. If you haven’t heard about it yet, here is... read more
