Category Archives: IdentityModel

Setup Thinktecture IdentityServer v2 in 7 minutes

Here’s how: https://vimeo.com/51088126 HTH

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Thinktecture IdentityServer v2 BETA

IdentityServer v2 beta is done! You can get it from the new thinktecture organization page on github as well as the new project page for IdentityServer (or directly from the download page). What’s new?Well – on the surface IdSrv 2 … Continue reading

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Custom Claims Principals in .NET 4.5

Recently I got a number of questions on what’s the best approach to implement a “custom claims principal”. What people typically mean by this is a ClaimsPrincipal derived class that provides some extra API surface like properties (think .EmailAddress). The … Continue reading

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Update on IdentityServer

Preparing for the things to come (very soon), I had to rename the Github repositories for IdentityServer. Sorry for any inconvenience. V1 – https://github.com/thinktecture/Thinktecture.IdentityServer.v1 V2 (beta next week) – https://github.com/thinktecture/Thinktecture.IdentityServer.v2

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“Windows Azure, Identity & Access – and you” Talk from Cloudburst 2012

My talk from Cloudburst 2012 is available here: http://www.streamshed.com/microsoft/cloudburst.htm# This was a nice little conference. recommended. (make sure to also watch Christian’s ServiceBus talk, which also involves identity quite a bit ;)

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ClaimsIdentity, IsAuthenticated and AuthenticationType in .NET 4.5

There is a subtle (breaking) change of behavior between WIF 1.0 and .NET 4.5. The IIdentity interface has the IsAuthenticated property. This is typically set to true whenever you deal with implementations of that interface, e.g as soon as you … Continue reading

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Thinktecture.IdentityServer for .NET 4.5 CTP 1

You can get stable bits now on github. The current version supports WS-Federation, WS-Trust, OAuth2 (resource owner credential profile) and a simple HTTP endpoint. Feedback is always welcome!

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Update on Thinktecture IdentityServer

It’s been quiet lately around IdSrv, and the reason is that we are actively working on it ;) But to clear up some confusion, this is the current state: The current stable versions are for .NET 4.0/WIF only. You can … Continue reading

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WIF & .NET 4.5 Identity and Access Control Training

Just a quick update – I will run my public WIF class for the last time on the 14th/15th November in Oslo (the dates on the page are not correct anymore). After that there will be a brand new .NET … Continue reading

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Support for X.509 Client Certificates in Thinktecture.IdentityModel for Web API

Another RTM feature I was waiting for is (reasonable) SSL client certificate support in Web API. Just like all the other authentication methods, you configure client certificate support on the AuthenticationConfiguration object. The following code configures the certificate to chain … Continue reading

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