The back to basics post about token validation published few weeks ago was overwhelmingly well received – hence, always the data driven kind – here I am jolting down the logical next step: an overview of authentication protocols. You heard the names: SAML, OAuth 1 and 2, WS-Federation, Kerberos, WS-Trust, OpenID and OpenID…
Did you install the preview of Windows Phone 8.1? I sure did, and it’s awesome! Windows Phone 8.1 introduces a great new feature, which was until recently only available on Windows 8.x: the WebAuthenticationBroker (WAB for short from now on). ADAL for Windows Store leverages the WAB for all of its authentication UI…
Super-quick post, as I am laser focused on you-know-what Last week we finally lifted the veil from the preview of the new OpenID Connect OWIN middleware in ASP.NET! We didn’t give much details at this point besides the brief post I guest-wrote on the WebDev blog – but we’ll open the floodgates soon…
Final installment of the Azure Active Directory development series on Azure Fridays. The last two videos are all about web API and native clients – at recording time we didn’t have the ADAL 2.0 preview out yet, hence I used ADAL .NET, but pretty much everything we said applies to the Windows Store,…
During last year’s //BUILD conference my good friend RobinDotNet was so kind to invite me over for a meetup of the San Francisco Bay Area Azure Developers. Lots of people showed up, and I had the chance to hear great feedback from many of you… something we can never have enough of! Well,…
Last Friday our good friends @ Channel9 published the 2nd installment in the Azure Fridays identity series. This time we get our hands dirty, and in fact I even stumble in an issue while deploying our app to WAWS – in the Azure Fridays spirit, we troubleshoot it right away! In the first…
Few weeks ago Scott Hanselman was so kind to have me over at the Studios to have a long chat about Windows Azure AD. That resulted in a number of Azure Fridays videos, which span from the very basics of claims based identity and eventually dive down all the way to where VS2013…
Sometimes it’s good to take a little break from just solving the immediate problem at hand by cutting & pasting code found on the ‘net, and take a step back to contemplate the bigger picture and the general principles that make that code tick. Also, the wife DVR’d the Oscars ceremony and she’s…
It feels so much longer, but in fact it’s barely five months since ADAL .NET v1 hit general availability… however here we move at cloud speed, hence today we are already unveiling the developer preview of our V2! In fact, we have quite a number of news. For details, read on! Overview You…
As you might have seen on the WebDev blog, today we unveiled the first preview of the new WS-Federation support in Microsoft OWIN Components. In this quick post you’ll see the new programming model in action. We will create a basic, no-frills app and configure it to authenticate users via WS-Federation and Windows…