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Monday, July 19, 2010 at 04:35PM The inimitable Mike Jones and others have posted a demo of an “Identity mash-up” consisting of components of OpenID, ADFS, WIF, and PHP, established by Microsoft, PayPal and Medtronics.
Monday, July 19, 2010 at 04:27PM At the Worldwide Partner Conference, we got to see an official roadmap for current and planned features for Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Office Communication Server Online.
Very nice visual breakdown in the ZDNet article here: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-shares-officially-its-future-bpos-plans/6857
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at 10:59AM Of all the articles I’ve seen offering an introduction to cloud computing, I think this one has done the best job thus far:
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/guides/2010/06/microsoft-azure-for-nubcakes.ars
Compares and contrasts the various vendor cloud offerings: Azure, EC2, etc., along with the different storage models that each of them use.
Monday, June 21, 2010 at 03:15PM I’ve had a few people ping me lately about setting up ADFS 2.0 to federate with a Shibboleth instance, now that everyone speaks SAML 2.0 and we all get to hold hands and sing Kum-ba-ya in a happy interoperable way.
There are a few “tricks” to make the conversation work well, though, particularly as regards formatting of claims from one org to the other. The ADFS PG has published a walk-through describing a PoC setup here.
Happy federating!
Sunday, June 20, 2010 at 05:25PM Matt Steele whiteboards the process of using ADFS to project federated identities to an application hosted in Windows Azure: http://bit.ly/b6GEYk