Walkthrough #1: Adding Sign-On to Your Web Application Using Windows Azure AD

Walkthrough #1: Adding Sign-On to Your Web Application Using Windows Azure AD

[Art by Sean :-)] As you probably already heard, today Windows Azure AD GA’d. Yeahh! Earlier today I gave a super quick overview of the new features, and I mentioned that Edward Wu and myself inked the first walkthroughs guiding you through the main scenarios supported in this release. Those documents are massive,…

Windows Azure Active Directory Reaches General Availability

Less than one year has passed since we started to talk about how this new service, Windows Azure Active Directory, could handle identity for your own cloud apps with the same infrastructure that powers Microsoft’s own SaaS services: Office365, Intune, Windows Azure itself…It’s been a great journey: we released preview bits often, working…

Now on Amazon: A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control, 2nd Edition

Now on Amazon: A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control, 2nd Edition

It took some time, but the IRL version of A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control is finally out. Whereas the 148 pages of the first edition were a groundbreaker, the 374 pages of the 2nd edition are the herald of an approach well into the mainstream. Just look at that the…