Suppose I have a front-end application that wants to fetch some data from a back-end service. (I do.) The service will need to verify that the end-user is authenticated, that it is authorized to us...

I'm just getting started with claims-based security and have a question related to identity delegation. I've managed to set up a local dummy STS and a couple of WCF services that relies on it for a...

In an ASP.NET MVC 4 application using the .NET 4.5 framework in conjunction with Azure Access Control Service (ACS), I want to provide the users multiple authentication possibilities (i.e. Google, ...

I've been researching the Azure Access Control Service (ACS), and it looks like it's especially good at handling authentication from heterogeneous (configurable) identity providers. Then there are ...

First post here on stackoverflow but I love the site!... I've successfully created a fully functioning Azure hybrid model application using MVC 4. Published and works great. Now I want to add ACS...

The Azure Training Kit includes a lab titled "IntroToACS2". In it you create a WebRole and enable ACS so that you can login using your Google, Live, or Yahoo id. The second part of the lab takes yo...

We are building an ASP.NET MCV 3 application from scratch running on Windows Azure. About Authentication and Authorization layer we are thinking to use the Access Control Service. I went through so...

When looking at the request urls that Azure ACS generates I can see that ACS includes email, fullname, firstname and lastname as required claims. Further, the fullname attribute is mapped to the ht...

I have no Access Control Service (ACS) installed, but I've seen on some online video demo that Salesforce is not in the list of available pre-installed identity providers. Salesforce can be configu...

I'd like to move a site that currently uses the standard ASP.NET membership provider to use claims-based authentication through Windows Identity Foundation and Azure ACS. We're going to surface t...

I'm using ACS to auth against Facebook. Before this week, I could add display=touch to the end of the URL ACS is providing. Now when I do this I'm getting a "HTTP 500 Internal Server Error". ...

I'm developing a REST service that uses MS Azure Access Control Service for authentication. If the examples are any indication, the typical way to secure a REST service this way would be to provide...

Thinking of using Access Control Service (ACS) and Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) to secure my WCF Data Services Web API application. How can I use claims to uniquely identify a user? My idea...