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This new case study describes how Microsoft IT migrated their federated applications from AD FS 1.0 to AD FS 2.0 and how Microsoft IT uses new AD FS 2.0 features for claims-based identity to simplify and enhance Human Resources Services. Great story describing...

“In Forefront TMG 2010 configuration change is by default asynchronous for both Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition. Some people have asked to be able to change the behavior to synchronous, so that the administrator will know the configuration has...

  This year, I will be at Tech Ready - a Microsoft internal event - giving a few sessions about Unified Access Gateway. One of them will be about Web Single Sign on , especially how UAG – using the internal engines and   customization – can...

Here is a very favorable review of ADFS 2.0 and FIM 2010 published in InfoWorld. InfoWorld review: Microsoft ADFS 2.0 and Forefront Identity Manager 2010 | Security Central - InfoWorld Read More...

The “Edge Man” Tom Shinder discusses an interesting issue in his blog post on using ping to troubleshoot DirectAccess connections. It had been my impression that if I could ping the UAG DirectAccess server and hosts behind the UAG DirectAccess server...

Today the team delivered the anticipated Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 (FEP) public beta to customers. The successor of Forefront Client Security is built on System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 R2, allowing customers to use their existing...

I finished my Visio stencil for FIM 2010 "Standard Objects" sometime ago and am just now getting around to posting it.  These are pretty much the standard icons you see in the portal interface with some additional things thrown in for good...

Hat tip to Jason Jones for finding some really useful information on the TechNet wiki! http://blog.msedge.org.uk/2010/05/certificate-revocation-list-crl.html On the TechNet wiki, the PKI team put up a nice list of products and applications that perform...