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• Kim shares the "Identity Roadmap for Software + Services " PDC presentation on his blog

  You know, I don't watch videos too often. I absolutely love them, but the level of attention they require is something that I rarely have the luxury of conceding: plus I really miss many things that I can easily get when reading text, such as varying the speed & depth or full text search. If you are like me in this respect, then you'll be immensely grateful to Kim: he just concluded a cycle of 5 posts, titled 'project "Geneva"', in which he basically provides a near-transcript of the session he presented last week at PDC . That's really, really useful (search engines anyone?) and a testament to Kim's good will of sharing and engaging everybody in a conversation rather than just broadcasting. Hats off! Here there's the list of his posts: Part 1 - intro Part 2 - Solving problems with claims Part 3 - Claims will give you vast “reach” both with consumers and with enterprises. They’ll also guarantee choice, making you immune to lock-in Part 4 -The new Azure Access Control Service - and a demo of how all the pieces fit together Part 5- From now on, all Live IDs will also work as OpenIDs…   Happy reading! Read More... Posted Saturday, November 08, 2008 3:39 AM from Vibro.NET | 1 Comments Filed under: Windows Cardspace, Identity, PDC08, PDC, PDC2008, Geneva, Geneva Server, Geneva Framework, .NET Access Control, Microsoft Federation Gateway, Live Services Framework, Live Identity Services, Microsoft Services Connector

• Azure Services Training Kit - PDC Preview

  You all heard the news: Windows Azure here, Azure Services there ... now it's time to get you hands dirty: the team I working on, the Azure Services Evangelism team , just released the PDC preview of the Azure Services Training Kit . This is a handy package which contains a lot of things you can play with for exploring the new .NET Services, SQL Data Services, Live Services and Windows Azure: Hands on labs . All the HOLs that are available here in the Big Room on the PDC floor are here, in this neat package. Play with it, and if you have feedback on the .NET Access Control Service lab feel free to ping me :) Samples . Those are projects aimed at single technologies which show off programming model and examples of what you can achieve Complete demos . Everybody on the team came out with one or more complete demos, which demonstrate advanced use of the technologies (and combinations) in fairly realistic scenarios. Mine ended up in yesterday's talk with Kim and I am still figuring out how to package it, but all the other demos (OF COURSE) take advantage of identity so you're covered Tools . This is one of the things I think have the most value. In this release of the kit we are providing a complete MMC for managing your .NET service solution: access control rules, SQL Data service, workflows... this is all available in a handy rich client interface: and interestingly enough, all the interactions with the management APIs is wrapped in powershell cmdlets which can be used standalone Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:51 PM from Vibro.NET | 1 Comments Filed under: Identity, the Cloud, PDC08, PDC, PDC2008, .NET Services, .NET Access Control

• PDC2008: Come to the Identity booth!

  Identity is everywhere at this PDC2008! After the keynotes and the many breakouts, let me introduce you to the Booth. We are in the Big Room, on your right, and we are easily recognizable thanks to 1) the big "Identity for software+services" signage and 2) the fashionable pistacchio shirts we drape ourselves in. The booth has staff from DPE|Identity, from the federated identity group, from the Live Services group and from the .NET services. There's always a lot of people there super-eager to introduce you to the glamorous world of identity, and delve into the details of the new products we announced this week . Above there's a snapshot of the people you can find there this morning. Form left to right: Matt Steele. Ask him about Geneva Server, then try to make him stop. Seriously, GREAT guy. Micah LaNasa. Inflexible booth shifts controller. Implements IStarbucksCardFactory. Vittorio Bertocci, AKA Vibro.NET. For more info click here Donovan Follette. ADFS guru, the true engine behind the Big Demo (more on this later) Tom Mereckis. Marketing mastermind, fearless paladin of the Claim Based Access initiative Caleb Baker. Author and speaker extraordinaire Liam Price. Live maven, knows everything about the new Live Services Not show in the picture (because they were with customers, while we were slacking & taking the picture): Rich Randall. Dev lean on CardSpace, tomorrow he'll unveil in more details CardSpace "geneva" Marc Goodner. Historical WS-* figure, ask him for some anecdote Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 2:00 PM from Vibro.NET | 1 Comments Filed under: CardSpace, Windows Cardspace, Identity, the Cloud, PDC08, PDC, PDC2008, Geneva, .NET Services, Geneva Server, Geneva Framework, .NET Access Control

• Identity@PDC2008

  As stated in former posts, the main reason for which I am blogging less than usual is that like many other colleagues I am working hard on the upcoming PDC ( have you registered yet ? You better hurry!). And what I could be working on, if not identity ? Identity is going to be BIG at this PDC : if you want to get a taste of it, just visit the sessions page and pick the identity tag... but it's not the sheer number, albeit high, that is the most impressive: the quality of the sessions is extremely high. While I can't reveal any really juicy info just yet I can assure you that if you are interested in the topics I discuss here, at PDC2008 your jaw will drop. More than once. I can't wait to be able to chat with you about it at length, so make sure to come to LA and enjoy the best PDC identity content ever ! :-) Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 5:36 PM from Vibro.NET | 1 Comments Filed under: Identity, Events, PDC08, PDC, PDC2008