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BlobShare Sample: ACS-Protected File Sharing

Weather is not that good this Sunday afternoon, and the wife warned me already yesterday that today she was going to catch up with the AI class ; hence, I think I am going to break the blog-silence and spend some time describing BlobShare , a little jewel...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2011 9:54 AM by Vibro.NET

Filed under: Windows Identity Foundation, WIF, Windows Azure, Access Control Service, ACS

Hands-on lab: Windows Azure Marketplace for Applications

For the series “ things I was working on before moving from DPE to the product team ”. Today Wade’s gang released an update to the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit containing a new lab, “ Introduction to the Windows Azure Marketplace for Applications...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2011 9:51 AM by Vibro.NET

Filed under: Windows Identity Foundation, Windows Azure, Access Control Service, ACS, OAuth2

Cloud Identity Summit: Come to Our Workshop!

Photo: Skinned Mink In just about three weeks the who’s who of identity in the cloud is going to converge to Keystone, in the beautiful Rocky Mountains , to talk each other into identity-induced stupor. The Cloud Identity Summit , hosted by our friends...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2011 10:24 AM by Vibro.NET

Filed under: Windows Identity Foundation, the Cloud, WIF, Identity, Events, ADFS, Windows Azure

Edit and Apply New WIF’s Config Settings in Your Windows Azure WebRole… Without Redeploying!

In short: in this post I will show you how you can leverage the OnStart event of a WebRole to enable changing the WIF config settings even after deployment. Since the very first time Hervey and I made the first foray in Windows Azure with WIF, all the...

Published Tue, May 05 2011 10:30 AM by Vibro.NET

Filed under: Windows Identity Foundation, WIF, Windows Azure, Access Control Service, ACS

Storing Encrypted Tokens with the Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1

If you went through the hands on lab for using ACS on your Windows Phone 7 application , you already know that saving the user the hassle to re-authenticate all the times entails a security tradeoff. Here there’s what I wrote in the lab’s instructions...

Published Thu, May 05 2011 1:01 AM by Vibro.NET

Filed under: Windows Identity Foundation, WIF, Access Control Service, ACS, wi

“Mango” and the ACS+Phone Samples

Yesterday we released the Beta of the Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 , with a boatload of new awesome features (I’ll write about one of those in the next post). Beta versions are likely to have some known issues, and this one is no exception. In fact...

Published Wed, May 05 2011 10:33 PM by Vibro.NET

Filed under: Windows Identity Foundation, WIF, ACS, windows phone7

Attention ASP.NET Developers: SAML-P Comes to WIF

If I’d have a dollar for every time a customer or partner asked me if they could use WIF for consuming the SAML2.0 protocol… ok, I would not exactly buy a villa a Portofino, but let’s just say that this is one of the most requested features since WIF...

Published Mon, May 05 2011 4:21 PM by Vibro.NET

Filed under: Windows Identity Foundation, WIF, Identity, SAML

Live from TechEd Atlanta: Drew Shows Windows Azure, Windows Phone 7–Uses Identity to Glue Them

Just few hours ago Wade announced the new release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone , with support for ACS . You can already see the bits in action from the stage of the TechEd keynote – nonetheless – from where a very elegant Drew Robbins...

Published Mon, May 05 2011 4:11 PM by Vibro.NET

Filed under: Windows Identity Foundation, ADFS, Windows Azure, TechEd, Access Control Service, ACS, windows phone7

25 Free Copies of “Programming Windows Identity Foundation” at Teched

Yesterday I posted about my sessions at TechEd and the book signing event . My friends at O’Reilly, though, graciously pointed out that I didn’t mention the juiciest fact: The first 25 people who will show up at the book signing will receive a free copy...

Published Sat, May 05 2011 9:42 AM by Vibro.NET

Filed under: Windows Identity Foundation, Book, WIF, Identity, TechEd

TechEd USA 2010: Identity, Identity, Identity and Book Signing

These days practically everybody I meet on campus is preparing to fly to Atlanta for TechEd, with the notable exception of Steve Marx (it seems I may be losing our bet after all). Atlanta holds a special meaning for me. Back in 2004 I won the Circle of...

Published Fri, May 05 2011 9:30 AM by Vibro.NET

Filed under: Windows Identity Foundation, Book, WIF, Identity, TechEd, Access Control Service, ACS

Fun in Netherlands (Presenting @ DevDays, Before You Get Any Ideas)

As anticipated, a couple of weeks ago I came back to EU to present at the Belgian TechDays and at the Netherland’s DevDays. For schedule constraints, I ended up being able to travel from Antwerp to the Hague only Thursday night (a nice train ride...

Published Tue, May 05 2011 8:55 AM by Vibro.NET

Filed under: Windows Identity Foundation, WIF, Identity, Events, TechDays, ACS, DevDays

Fun with FabrikamShipping SaaS III: Programmatic Use of the Enterprise Edition via OData, OAuth2

Welcome to the last installment of the “Fun with FabrikamShipping SaaS” series. The “fun” blogs are meant to help you walking through the demo; once we are done with that, I’ll finally start to talk about what makes the demo tick: architecture, code and...

Published Wed, May 05 2011 6:51 PM by Vibro.NET

Filed under: Windows Identity Foundation, WIF, ADFS, Windows Azure, Access Control Service, AppFabric, ACS, SaaS, Azure, Azure Services, REST, OAuth

Fun with FabrikamShipping SaaS II: Creating an Enterprise Edition Instance

I finally found (read: made) the time to get back to the “ Fun with FabrikamShipping SaaS ” series. As in the first installment (where I provided a “script” for going through the creation and use of a small business edition instance) here I will walk...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2011 5:21 AM by Vibro.NET

Filed under: Windows Identity Foundation, WIF, ADFS, Windows Azure, Access Control Service, AppFabric, ACS, SaaS, Azure, Azure Services

New Topic on MSDN: WIF Configuration

The WIF online documentation just got a brand-new section , which provides a great reference for the WIF configuration elements. It’s very well written & organized, and certainly beats digging in the config schema ! Try it , I am sure you’ll find...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2011 4:24 AM by Vibro.NET

Filed under: Windows Identity Foundation, WIF, Identity

Fun with FabrikamShipping SaaS I: Creating a Small Business Edition Instance

It’s been few months that we pulled the wrap off FabrikamShipping SaaS , and the response (example here ) has been just great: I am glad you guys are finding the sample useful! In fact, FabrikamShipping SaaS contains really a lot of interesting...

Published Sun, Feb 02 2011 6:21 AM by Vibro.NET

Filed under: Windows Identity Foundation, the Cloud, WIF, Windows Azure, FabrikamShipping, Access Control Service, ACS, Azure, SQL Azure

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