Time to be a spreker again: TechDays Belgium & DevDays Nederlands

Time to be a spreker again: TechDays Belgium & DevDays Nederlands

I am back from sunny Vegas, where we finally announced the RTW of the new ACS, to the less sunny Redmond; but not for long. Next Saturday I’m scheduled to fly back to EU, where I’ll have the honor and privilege to blabber about my favorite topics at TechDays Belgium and Nederland’s DevDays….

The new ACS ships!

The new ACS ships!

  Last week we shipped a new version of the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control service. and MIX is all a buzz about it! The new ACS includes a plethora of new features that you guys have been asking with enthusiasm: single sign on from business and web identity providers, easy integration with…

Fun with FabrikamShipping SaaS II: Creating an Enterprise Edition Instance

Fun with FabrikamShipping SaaS II: Creating an Enterprise Edition Instance

I finally found (read: made) the time to get back to the “Fun with FabrikamShipping SaaS” series. As in the first installment (where I provided a “script” for going through the creation and use of a small business edition instance) here I will walk you through the onboarding and use of a new…

New ACS Infographic

New ACS Infographic

Back in August I tried to capture in a single view all the relevant aspects for token issuing of that LABS release of ACS: preconfigured identity providers, available issuer endpoints, credential types accepted, token types, and so on. Since then I’ve been using that infographic in various sessions, and it served me well…

February 2011 Updates to the Identity Training Kit & Course: new AppFabric Portal, Windows 7 SP1

February 2011 Updates to the Identity Training Kit & Course: new AppFabric Portal, Windows 7 SP1

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 look & feel f the newest AppFabric portal. As I am sure…

Archaeopteryx

Archaeopteryx

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 asymmetric wing feathers, one key characteristic which helps the lift in the…