{"id":475,"date":"2009-12-18T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/18\/adfs-2-0-rc-is-here\/"},"modified":"2009-12-18T08:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T17:53:00","slug":"adfs-2-0-rc-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/18\/adfs-2-0-rc-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"ADFS 2.0 RC is Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wlWriterHeaderFooter\" style=\"float:right;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 4px 8px\">digg_url = &#8220;http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2009\/12\/18\/adfs-2-0-rc-is-here.aspx&#8221;;digg_title = &#8220;ADFS 2.0 RC is Here!&#8221;;digg_bgcolor = &#8220;#FFFFFF&#8221;;digg_skin = &#8220;normal&#8221;;digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined;<\/div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;margin-left: 0px;border-left-width: 0px;margin-right: 0px\" title=\"ADFS RC\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ADFS RC\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/ADFS%20RC_b420bf64-6553-4ac8-93af-2ec3ef1858c2.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"198\" \/><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p>The release candidate is always an important milestone for a product: if possible, it is even more so for a component as essential as your identity provider or your federation provider, which must be absolutely rock solid, secure, always available&#8230; you know the drill.<\/p>\n<p>Well, good news everyone! From this morning Active Directory Federation Service 2.0 is officially in Release Candidate mode: read the announcement <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/card\/archive\/2009\/12\/18\/announcing-the-ad-fs-2-0-release-candidate-and-more.aspx\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/site642\/Downloads\">download bits &amp; goodies from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p>As you\u2019ve come to expect, the <a href=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/shows\/Identity\/ADFS-20-RC-is-Here\/\">Id Element<\/a> is here to provide <a href=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/shows\/Identity\/ADFS-20-RC-is-Here\/\">in video<\/a> the juicy details, directly from the protagonists:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/site642\/Downloads\"><em><strong>Active Directory Federation Services<\/strong> (<strong>ADFS<\/strong>) <strong>2.0<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em> finally reached the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/site642\/Downloads\"><em>Release Candidate<\/em><\/a><em> phase!              <br \/>This special episode of the Id Element is all about the new features introduced in the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/site642\/Downloads\"><em>RC<\/em><\/a><em>: <strong>Matt Steele<\/strong>, Senior PM in the ADFS team, makes his second appearance on the show and gives us an insider view on how the feedback on Beta2 helped to improve the product.               <br \/>From <strong>SAML protocol interop<\/strong> to <strong>farms and certificates management<\/strong>, going through <strong>new authorization capabilities<\/strong> and<strong> improved user experience<\/strong>, in <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/site642\/Downloads\"><em>this release<\/em><\/a><em> there&#8217;s something for everybody!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The video is available <a href=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/shows\/Identity\/ADFS-20-RC-is-Here\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/image_ec25a200-cd0a-4dc4-984e-8a4d1ebe02f9.png\" width=\"350\" height=\"227\" \/> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>For this release the team has produced enough material to keep you busy exploring the product for days: have fun discovering the new capabilities of the RC, and\u2026 stay tuned for the next logical step \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>digg_url = &#8220;http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2009\/12\/18\/adfs-2-0-rc-is-here.aspx&#8221;;digg_title = &#8220;ADFS 2.0 RC is Here!&#8221;;digg_bgcolor = &#8220;#FFFFFF&#8221;;digg_skin = &#8220;normal&#8221;;digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; The release candidate is always an important milestone for a product: if possible, it is even more so for a component as essential as your identity provider or your federation provider, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,47,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adfs","category-idelement","category-identity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}