Use social web providers in less than 5 minutes
Significant Access Control Service (ACS) updates released to AppFabric LABS environment today. Take a look at the Windows Azure AppFabric team blog for the formal announcement. I’d rather show you a quick demo.
Quick summary of new capabilities in the Access Control Service:
- Integration with Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) and tooling
- Out-of-the-box support for popular web identity providers including: Windows Live ID, OpenID, Google, Yahoo, and Facebook
- Out-of-the-box support for Active Directory Federation Server v2.0
- Support for OAuth WRAP, WS-Trust, and WS-Federation protocols
- Support for the SAML 1.1, SAML 2.0, and Simple Web Token (SWT) token formats
- Integrated and customizable Home Realm Discovery that allows end-users to choose their identity provider
- An OData-based Management Service that provides programmatic access to ACS configuration
- A Web Portal that allows administrative access to ACS configuration
Try this out yourself. Use Visual Studio, install Windows Identity Foundation, and go to https://portal.appfabriclabs.com/.
For detailed information and a more verbose walkthrough (i.e. including explanations), listen to Justin Smith’s walkthrough and interview.
Very impressive demo Wade and very good news indeed!
I’ve been strugeling with ADFS 2.0 in order to authenticate a user in an Azure Staging (guid-URI) environment to no-end and it seems like this service could act as a convenient proxy.
Is there (will there) be a rest-based API to this service? If so, it could be quite easy to write some script updating a new staging URL on this service and have the authentication working out easily.
Am I right?
Cheers,
Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
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