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[ Dave , forgive me for lifting your headline it’s just too good a fit for the occasion] As anticipated during a recent CloudCover episode , tomorrow it’s going to be my first day as Principal Program Manager in the identity product team . I’ll be looking...
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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...
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Last week I had the pleasure of being guest on the PowerScripting podcast , THE show about PowerShell. That’s actually pretty uncharacteristic for me, considering that at every session I deliver at TechEd I spend the first few minutes on colorful disclaimers...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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As promised few weeks ago, here there’s the update to the identity developer training kit and the identity developer training course on MSDN . We revved the instructions for the two HOLs about the ACS Labs release, refactoring instructions to match the...
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The archaeopteryx roamed the south of Germany in the late Jurassic. It is considered the very first bird species, although many of its features (teeth, wing claws, bony tail) are clearly still dinosaur-like rather than avian. It had the first ever-recorded...
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It feels like a year already, but in fact it’s been not even 5 months that Programming Windows Identity Foundation hit the virtual and physical shelves. Last week I was hanging out with Giorgio at a certain library, and out of curiosity I checked if they...
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Back in December one pretty important piece of news didn’t get as much air time as it would have deserved: we recently changed the WIF SDK EULA so that you can now freely (and happily) include & redistribute the WIF runtime (& samples) with your...
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I hope you took some to time to rest last month, because now it’s time to dive right back in! To get you back into your cloud habit, I would suggest a SaaS entrée. It’s already few weeks that the online instance of FabrikamShipping SaaS ( ) has been updated...
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I knooow, for many of you this is already Not News; but I can assure you that if you would have spent the last few days wrestling with the airlines & bad weather combo in EU, combined with the anechoic force field that seems to isolate my Mom’s house...
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[thanks to Dan Yang for the translation :-)] 我将讲授两个课程，都在 12 月 2 日，下面是课程安排： Session Code COS-300-1 9:45-10:45 云计算中的身份认证以及访问控制 Identity & Access Control in the Cloud Session Code ARC-300-4 17:00-18:00 利用Windows Azure Platform开发SaaS的解决方案...