Introducing the Developer Preview of the JSON Web Token Handler for the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5

The JWT handler class diagram, spanning 3 monitors 🙂   Today I am really, really happy to announce the developer preview of a new extension that will make the JSON Web Token format (JWT) a first-class citizen in the .NET Framework: the JSON Web Token Handler for the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 (JWT…

A Refresh of the Windows Azure Authentication Library Developer Preview

A Refresh of the Windows Azure Authentication Library Developer Preview

Three months ago we released the first developer preview of the Windows Azure Authentication Library. Today we are publishing a refresh of the developer preview, with some important (and at times radical) improvements. We already kind of released this update, albeit in stealth mode, to enable the Windows Azure authentication bits in the…

Provisioning a Windows Azure Active Directory Tenant as an Identity Provider in an ACS Namespace

Provisioning a Windows Azure Active Directory Tenant as an Identity Provider in an ACS Namespace

Thanks to the improvements introduced in the latest refresh of the developer preview of Windows Azure Active Directory, we are finally able to support a scenario you often asked for: provisioning  a Windows Azure Active Directory tenant as an identity provider in an ACS namespace. In this post I am going to describe…