MS Technet Identity Management

TechEd USA sessions starting to show up

Identity and Access Management — Thu, 19 May 2011 05:54:38 GMT

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...(read more)

FIM 2010 R2 Community Evaluation Program

Identity and Access Management — Tue, 17 May 2011 18:27:07 GMT

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...(read more)

SAML-P support in Windows Identity Foundation coming

Identity and Access Management — Mon, 16 May 2011 14:21:11 GMT

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...(read more)

FIM 2010 Updates via RSS Feed

Identity and Access Management — Thu, 12 May 2011 05:53:11 GMT

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...(read more)

Identity cloud service released–Windows Azure Appfabric Access Control service

Identity and Access Management — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:38:18 GMT

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...(read more)

New Article: Understanding FIM Service Partitions

Identity and Access Management — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:21:56 GMT

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...(read more)

Identity and Access coming to MMS 2011

Identity and Access Management — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:01:17 GMT

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...(read more)

New rollup hotfix package for Forefront Identity Manager released

Identity and Access Management — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:45:03 GMT

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...(read more)

TechEd Europe – Identity and Access Sessions

Identity and Access Management — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 17:24:49 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Identity and Access Management — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:27:28 GMT

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...(read more)

FIM Management Agents from partners now a WIKI page

Identity and Access Management — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 05:00:34 GMT

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...(read more)

Software as a Service demo available

Identity and Access Management — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:36:37 GMT

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...(read more)

Set of TechNet articles on AD Federation Services

Identity and Access Management — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:19:44 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Identity and Access Management — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:55:59 GMT

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...(read more)

FIM 2010 Online Training

Identity and Access Management — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:28:37 GMT

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...(read more)