Headsup: Brace for Changes in the Windows Azure Active Directory Developer Preview

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If you are already using the developer preview of Windows Azure Active Directory, today we published a list of upcoming breaking changes you need to be aware of if you want your code to keep working. If you are not using Windows Azure Active Directory yet, what are you doing here? Go get…

Microsoft ASP.NET Tools for Windows Azure Active Directory – Visual Studio 2012

Microsoft ASP.NET Tools for Windows Azure Active Directory – Visual Studio 2012

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If you guys had a chance of seeing the Windows Azure AD session at //BUILD, or more recently at the P&P Symposium, you already know that the previews of ASP.NET Tools Fall update included a feature to easily configure a Web application to use Windows Azure AD; it is what added the “Enable…

Use the JWT handler to write a μ- Authorization Server in ~3 lines of code – see it in action with a Windows Store app client & Web API PR

Use the JWT handler to write a μ- Authorization Server in ~3 lines of code – see it in action with a Windows Store app client & Web API PR

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[if there was ever a post where you NEED to understand my post disclaimers, this is it. This is my PERSONAL blog, what I write here are MY OWN personal elucubrations, largely written on nights and weekends instead of engaging in healthy activities, and is by no mean official guidance. Please refer to…

The Name claim: sometimes it’s the simple things

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In short: we just updated the list of claims we issue from Windows Azure AD to provide the UPN of the user (“user@domain”) in the Name claim (http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/name). If it is present, WIF automatically assigns the value of the Name claim to the Name property of the Principal in the current thread. Why…