The release candidate of ADAL v2 introduces a new cache model, which makes possible to cache tokens in middle tier apps and dramatically simplifies creating custom caches. In this post I’ll give you a brief introduction to the new model. You can see the new cache in action in our updates samples. Limitations…
This might be the most requested feature for ADAL: the ability of authenticating a user by pumping in username/password, without showing any pop up. There are perfectly legitimate scenarios that require that feature; unfortunately there are also many ways in which abusing this feature might backfire. With the RC we just released, we…
We’ve been saying it was coming for almost a year. With this RC preview release, it’s finally happening: ADAL for .NET/Windows Store/Windows Phone is now fully open source! Without getting too dramatic, this truly ushers a new era of transparency and collaboration between our team and you guys – you’ll be able to:…
ADAL for Windows Phone 8.1 is finally here! With the latest update of the ADAL preview on the NuGet gallery we added a new target platform, Windows Store apps for Windows Phone 8.1. This will allow you to get and store Azure AD tokens from your phone app with the same ease you’ve…
As you know, development stacks implementing web sign in protocols traditionally handle sessions by tracking the content of the initial token in form of a session cookie. That is not the only way in which it could be done, and I do think it will change in the future, but for the time…
After having promised (to you and to myself) to write more in depth about the new OWIN components for OpenId Connect and WS-Federation, I am finally carving out some time to sit down and jolt down my thoughts about it. My goals for this post are to help you to understand what those…
Next week a sizeable delegation of admin-centric (..biased?) colleagues will descend to Houston, where during the annual TechEd they’ll deliver all sorts of training goodness in form of breakout sessions, beer-fueled whiteboarding at the Ask the Expert night, demos and chats at the both, and more. I will take the responsibility to carry…
During the //BUILD timeframe we pushed out A LOT of new features and artifacts – to the point that we didn’t yet manage to talk about even half of it! Of all those, the ones that IMO yield the biggest bang for the buck are: The Azure AD authentication scenarios overview topic on…
The enthusiasm for the new OWIN-based programming model is spreading – and one of the things I get asked most often has to do with how to use it to connect to ADFS. That’s actually pretty simple. So simple, in fact, that I don’t really need to write much to tell you how…
Mixing and matching multiple authentication styles in a single web application has always been difficult with WIF. The new OWIN security components in ASP.NET change that, thanks to the finer grained control they grant over request processing pipelines. One of the most common requests I have been hearing in the last couple of…