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TechEd USA sessions starting to show up

The sessions from TechEd this week is starting to show up on Channel 9 in case you want to get a view of what we have talked about so far. Session on AD FS, FIM 2010 R2 and Access Control services are among those available right now. Technical Overview...

Published Thu, May 19 2011 7:54 AM by Identity and Access Management

FIM 2010 R2 Community Evaluation Program

The Community Evaluation Program from the Management and Security team at Microsoft provides IT professionals a structured approach to evaluating System Center and Forefront products before their final release. Members of this program are able...

Published Tue, May 17 2011 8:27 PM by Identity and Access Management

SAML-P support in Windows Identity Foundation coming

It is our pleasure to announce the availability of the first CTP release of the WIF (Windows Identity Foundation) Extension for the SAML 2.0 Protocol ! We heard your feedback about the necessity to have support for the SAML 2.0 protocol in WIF. Today...

Published Mon, May 16 2011 4:21 PM by Identity and Access Management

FIM 2010 Updates via RSS Feed

The FIM product team has been really busy responding to different customer requests and identified issues in FIM 2010 which has resulted in a few hotfixes. It is a good practice to make sure you have the latest hotfix to ensure optimal operations and...

Published Thu, May 12 2011 7:53 AM by Identity and Access Management

Identity cloud service released–Windows Azure Appfabric Access Control service

Today at MIX 2011 we announced the new version of ACS that we have been referring to as ACS 2.0 for some time. Great to see the service go live enabling developers to easily incorporate public identity providers as well as corporate AD Federation Services...

Published Wed, Apr 13 2011 6:38 AM by Identity and Access Management

New Article: Understanding FIM Service Partitions

The objective of FIM is to process requests that can be initiated by various FIM clients such as the FIM synchronization service and the self-service components according to your configured business policies. By design, each FIM service instance belongs...

Published Thu, Mar 10 2011 10:21 PM by Identity and Access Management

Identity and Access coming to MMS 2011

Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas , March 21-25, will host breakout sessions and a ask the experts booth on Identity and Access for the first time. I’m very excited to be able to deliver four different sessions during the week that should give...

Published Sat, Feb 26 2011 9:01 PM by Identity and Access Management

New rollup hotfix package for Forefront Identity Manager released

The Forefront Identity Manager team has released a new rollup hotfix package (build 4.0.3573.2). The Knowledge Base article ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2417774 ) describes the changes so I’m not going to go through the updates here but one...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2011 12:45 AM by Identity and Access Management

TechEd Europe – Identity and Access Sessions

Just a couple of days now until TechEd starts in Berlin and I just arrived today after a couple of days in Copenhagen. This time we have a lot of different Identity and Access sessions across many different tracks. When we talk about Identity and Access...

Published Sat, Nov 06 2010 6:24 PM by Identity and Access Management

Race to the Cloud – IDA summit hosted by Oxford Computer Group

November 3rd & 4th in Cambridge, MA Oxford Computer Group (OCG) is again hosting the North American Summit for Microsoft Identity and Access. The theme this year will be "race to the cloud," a 2-day summit examining Identity and Access Management...

Published Thu, Oct 28 2010 8:27 AM by Identity and Access Management

FIM Management Agents from partners now a WIKI page

The blog post on Management Agents is the most popular page on this blog and there is a lot of interest around Management Agents so in an attempt to make this topic even more alive and current we have moved the information to a Wiki page instead so that...

Published Tue, Oct 12 2010 7:00 AM by Identity and Access Management

Software as a Service demo available

Thinking about selling your software as a service but don’t know where to start and what it would look like? The Windows Azure platform team at Microsoft has created a live demo environment built on Windows Azure. This is not just a demo environment but...

Published Fri, Oct 08 2010 6:36 AM by Identity and Access Management

Set of TechNet articles on AD Federation Services

Adam Conkle has published some great troubleshooting, tips and tricks and how to articles on TechNet that should help you in evaluating and implementing Active Directory Federation Services. AD FS - How to invoke a WS-Federation sign-out AD FS 2.0 - "An...

Published Sun, Sep 19 2010 7:19 PM by Identity and Access Management

New Books on Identity and Access (FIM 2010 and WIF)

David Lundell and Brad Turner at Ensynch have just released a book : FIM Best Practices Volume 1: Introduction, Architecture And Installation Of Forefront Identity Manager 2010 This is a great companion to the online FIM training as well that I posted...

Published Fri, Sep 03 2010 6:55 PM by Identity and Access Management

FIM 2010 Online Training

Evaluating FIM for identity management, already looking at deploying or are you in the middle of a project? The Online Ramp Up Training that we released this summer can really help you. As you can see from the goals with the training below this is not...

Published Fri, Sep 03 2010 6:28 PM by Identity and Access Management