Category Archives: IdentityModel

Questions/Feedback/Comments about Thinktecture IdentityModel and Server

For any questions, please use the issue track on github for IdentityModel and IdentityServer (and please not the comments on my blog). If you absolutely want to use StackOverflow, I am now monitoring the thinktecture-ident-model and thinktecture-ident-server tags.

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Azure Authentication Library

Azure Authentication Library (AAL) is slowly turning into a really useful “easy to use” library to write client code against Microsoft identity back-ends like Windows Azure Active Directory and Access Control Service (and hopefully ADFS too at some point). Very … Continue reading

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Identity & Access Control in .NET, ASP.NET and WCF 4.5

I just hit my first big milestone in the security curriculum for Pluralsight. All three base identity & access control courses are done and online now. They cover what used to be called WIF and is now part of .NET … Continue reading

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Progress on Thinktecture IdentityServer v2 (hopefully the last update ;)

We’ve been extremely busy with our days jobs in the last weeks – end of year madness. That means we did not have much time to work on IdSrv – but – all the reported bugs seem to be fixed … Continue reading

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Switching to ReferenceMode in ASP.NET 4.5

As a follow up to this post – things have changed a little bit in .NET 4.5. SessionMode is now called ReferenceMode (which is less confusing), and mechanics are slightly different now. When creating session security tokens manually, you can … Continue reading

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WCF and Identity in .NET 4.5: External Authentication with WS-Trust

overview scenarios accessing claims windows authentication username authentication client certificate authentication A typical configuration for a WCF service that uses a WS-Trust security token service would be this: <system.serviceModel>   <services>       <service name=“Common.ClaimsService“>       <endpoint address=“wstrust“                 binding=“ws2007FederationHttpBinding“ … Continue reading

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A Day of Identity and Access Control at DevWeek 2013

http://www.devweek.com/ In addition to the break out sessions – Brock and I will do a full day workshop on identity & access control – see you there!

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Identity & Access Control in ASP.NET 4.5

My 2nd course for PluralSight is now online! Identity & Access Control in ASP.NET 4.5 Have fun!

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OAuth2 in Thinktecture IdentityServer v2: Using the Implicit Flow with Windows Store Clients

WinRT has built-in support for the “browser control/redirect” sign-in mechanism that is used in OAuth2 implicit flow. The API for that is called the WebAuthenticationBroker and using it has some advantages, e.g. Give the user a consistent interface for entering … Continue reading

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Thinktecture IdentityServer Wiki

I started adding content to the wiki on github. If you like to contribute, let me know! https://github.com/thinktecture/Thinktecture.IdentityServer.v2/wiki

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