Active Directory Federation Services v2 Ships! This is awesome stuff – with ADFS v2 we can help you setup SSO with your SaaS vendors. Here is an example that has been rendered generic. ADFS 2.0 supports SAML 2.0 (the idp lite profile and rdp lite profile) which opens up many federation doors and WIF allows us to write custom security token services (sts) just in case the idp lite and rdp lite profile support isn’t up to handling the interaction.
AD RMS on Windows Server 2008 R2 adds a really slick feature blogged about here: Group Expansion for Federated Users Prior to R2 to issue a use license to a federated user they need to specifically be granted permissions. With Windows Server 2008 R2 you can create a contact matching the external federated user and then place the contact in the group and then they have the same RMS permissions as that group.
It’s nice to know its impact to the business. … Karl - Sep 4, 2011It’s nice to know its impact to the business. Thanks a lot for sharing that valuable information. business consultant
Brad and I are going to cover the value of the whole Identity Management Stack from Microsoft and a few additional pieces from partners. **When: Thursday, May 28th **Where: Webinar/Online (Live Meeting links will be sent to all registrants) (Click Here to RSVP) Presenters: David Lundell – Microsoft MVP for ILM, Ensynch Practice Director Brad Turner – Microsoft MVP for ILM, Ensynch Sr. Technical Architect **Time: **9am-10am Pacific/Arizona 10am-11am Mountain
In the last four months two very talented people have joined Ensynch, Chris Calderon, ILM MVP, and Mark Struck. Chris Calderon of IdentityJunkie.com fame is extremely talented with ILM, AD Federated Services (AD FS) and many other tools. Mark Struck, is a very talented developer, and experienced implementer of ILM. Even before Mark joined the team he and I collaborated to figure out how to use the ILM 2 web services.
Back in business school we always studied name changes and rebranding, and this one has been interesting Last summer NetPro deciding to expand the Directory Experts Conference (DEC) to include an exchange conference and so they re-branded the conference NetPro’s The Experts Conference. Then Quest acquired NetPro, so it became a completely re-branded conference as Quest’s The Expert Conference. So NetPro DEC became Quest TEC. Sunday Mar 22nd - Wed Mar 25th in Vegas www.
At the PDC Microsoft’s Kim Cameron and colleague Bertocci Vittorio announced that Microsoft Live is now an Open Id provider. Additionally, when signing into Live you can use Information Cards (Info Card, Card Space, Geneva Card Space). They also demonstrated the new Geneva Framework (formerly known as Zermat) – essentially a successor to Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Federation Services, and showed it supporting SAML 2.0 the “protocol” not just SAML 2.
As I was architecting and assembling the Identity All Up workshop (part of the 2008 Directory Experts Conference see the review by Felix Gaehtgens, an analyst for Kuppinger Cole) designed to expose the attendees (or delegates) to all facets of the Microsoft Identity Access Platform, Lori Craw, from Microsoft referred to this as the “Grand Unified Demo”. I chuckled, instantly catching the reference to the still undiscovered Grand Unified Field theory that eluded Einstein and even today’s theoretical physicists.
