Honored to be a Featured Speaker @ TechMentor Orlando 2011

March 14-18, 2011, at Disney’s Yacht Club Resort in Orando FL

http://www.techmentorevents.com/orlando2011

See you all there!

The Microsoft Office in New York City is rumored to be hosting an IT Pro “Techstravaganza” on March 15th. If you’ve ever been to a Code Camp, this is a similar idea from the IT Pro side. Single-day event consisting of multiple tracks – Exchange, SharePoint, PowerShell, and the like. I’ll think of something Identity-like to yammer about, I’m sure.

SSO to Azure using ADFS 2.0 & WIF

The most excellent David Mowers has written an end-to-end walk-through of wiring up a Windows Azure application using WIF and ADFS 2.0 to provide access to an on-premises application.

Really excellent stuff, the kind of white paper I wish I’d written: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=1296e52c-d869-4f73-a112-8a37314a1632

Wednesday update – I have just learned that the also most excellent Vittorio Bertocci was a co-author on this paper whose name was initially omitted. Even more reason to go download it!

Wow, an ADFS Thing I didn’t know.

Thanks to one of my ADFS engineers, I just learned two snippets of the claims rule language that I didn’t know before:

@RuleName = "Store:Active Directory, Email Address"

(This is what will create a human-readable name in the UI if you create a claim rule using the language, rather than that annoying blank “Double-click the rule to see the syntax…” thing.)

@description = "user email address, converted to <user name>@microsoft.com suffix"

A comment field. Who’da thunk it?

Go Geoff.

A few items of note:

Someday I’ll have time for a proper blog post. Today is not that day. I’ve been hanging out on Twitter (@adfskitteh) due to lots and lots of lack of time.

• National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace is nearing completion: http://gcn.com/articles/2010/11/04/trusted-identities-strategy.aspx?s=gcndaily_051110
• ACS 2.0 (in beta) demo’ed for Windows Phone 7. Shiny! http://blogs.msdn.com/b/card/archive/2010/11/06/access-control-for-windows-phone-7-apps.aspx
• AD FS 2.0 Step-by-Step Guide for Federating with Shibboleth – been waiting for this one for quite a little while: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/card/archive/2010/10/22/ad-fs-2-0-step-by-step-guide-federation-with-shibboleth-2-and-the-incommon-federation.aspx

In other news, my Microsoft commute is frantic and awesome, but for the fact that my Kindle just bricked. Adventures in customer support to ensue.

TEC Europe 2010–October 4th-6th

I will be there, and so should you! The inimitable Mssrs Wells, Puhl, Desmond, Kaplan, and others will all be in attendance, speaking sagely about AD, FIM, ADFS, and all manner of other matters IdM.

(Yours truly might even be making a cameo on-stage once or twice.)

See you there!