Microsoft is adding federated-identity support for companies such as Google, Facebook, LiveID and OpenID to its Azure cloud platform by way of a new update to its Windows Azure AppFabric element.Windows Azure AppFabric may be the new title for .Net Services, and at present includes company bus and access control only. Microsoft has began creating regular,
Office 2010 Keygen, monthly updates to Azure AppFabric. The August update — which the Softies are characterizing as a major one — includes a number of identity-specific updates to the accessibility control piece.The August Azure AppFabric update is available through the AppFabric LABS environment, which is where the AppFabric team showcases some of its early bits and makes them available for free to get user feedback. (Microsoft characterizes the features it delivers through AppFabric LABS as “similar to a Community Technology Preview,” but notes that these technologies “may occasionally be even farther away from commercial availability.”Included in the August access-control update to Azure AppFabric are the following new features: Integration with Windows Identification Foundation (WIF) and toolingOut-of-the-box assistance for web identification companies which includes: Windows Live ID, OpenID, Google,
Office Professional Plus 2010, Yahoo,
Windows 7 X86, and FacebookOut-of-the-box assistance for Active Directory Federation Server v2.0 Support for OAuth WRAP, WS-Trust, and WS-Federation protocolsSupport for the SAML 1.1,
Office 2007 Pro, SAML 2.0, and Simple Web Token (SWT) token formatsIntegrated and customizable Home Realm Discovery that allows end-users to choose their identification providerAn OData-based Management Services that provides programmatic entry to ACS configurationA Web Portal that allows administrative accessibility to ACS configuration Microsoft officials outlined the enterprise;s plans to add single sign-on/federated identity assistance to Azure in the fall of 2009. Microsoft execs recently said that the organization is working to add federated-identity assistance to Microsoft;s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) of hosted applications. (BPOS is not yet running on Azure, just to be clear; however, it;s still running in Microsoft datacenters.)How major are these new AppFabric updates? Sergejus, a .Net developer, tweeted: “Finally, Azure #AppFabric supports LiveID, OpenID, Google and Facebook authentication. Now real development starts,
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