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Recently I decided to dissect the structure of the default pages in AD FS 2.0 and see what can be done with creating slightly different look from its default look. I wanted to see what files control what areas in the UI and what can be done with minimum code changes. I started working with one of the...

A few month ago I learned something about claims based authentication that I thought was not possible. Ever since starting working on federation solutions, and learning about it via training courses, reading white papers, specifications and presentations the following two topologies were always shown...

Authentication Mechanism Assurance is described in the following Microsoft publication: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd378897(v=WS.10).aspx . In this post I want to dig a bit more into different configuration options, show how it works and provide example of how it can be configured with...

Over the last three month I published many articles on UAG and AD FS. While it each of the posts provides its own information, many of them refer or build on the knowledge provided in the prior posts. So if you had to read it altogether you’d have to start from the end and read forward. One continuous...

In the last nine posts we reviewed different topologies and discussed some of the techniques on how to integrate these topologies together. In this post we’ll take a look at real example of a production implementation. The solution very similar to the following design has been implemented by one of the...

In the last many posts we looked at all kind of different topologies for UAG and AD FS configuration. Now, since we are armed with knowledge of different configuration options, we can put all of them to use and see how we can apply them to real life situations. Before we do this, we need to revisit some...

This post discussing how it is possible to publish applications to Internet based users who authenticate to the UAG via one of the Internet Cloud Identity Providers, such as LiveID, Google, Yahoo or Facebook. The Windows Azure ACS acts as IdP-STS in this configuration topology. This is essentially the...

In this scenario, our partner organization users access claims based applications published by our organization UAG servers. The partner users provide security tokens issued by the partner controlled Identity Provider to our AD FS v2 published by the UAG server. This configuration is the most common...

In article “ UAG and AD FS are Better Together – UAG as AD FS Proxy ”  we explored how user authenticates to UAG portal via claims based authentication and then accesses claims based application published via UAG portal. But what if published application does not support claims based authentication...

Today we will discuss a solution that provides the following functionality: You what to require your company external users to use strong AuthN when they access 3 rd party trusted claims based applications. These applications can be hosted in the Cloud or by Partner organization. The description of this...

In previous topologies ( 1 and 2 ) we did not expose AD FS server to the outside users as primary form of authentication. This topology will do this. One of the benefits of using UAG server in combination with AD FS is that it can now act as gateway or proxy server to the internal AD FS server, in fact...

In the previous post we looked at the most common UAG configuration, with user using username and password for authentication to UAG. In this post we are going to explorer the following  configuration – user authenticates to UAG Portal via Certificate Based Authentication (Soft Certificate or Smart...

In previous post I started with introduction for UAG and AD FS integrations scenarios. Today post will discuss the first topology - Authentication to UAG Portal via Forms Based Authentication and accessing internal claims based application and other types of applications. Many companies want to provide...

A few weeks ago I started working on a white paper about UAG SP1 and AD FS v2 configuration topologies and sample complex design based on those topologies. I’m still working on it, but I decided to publish different parts of it for folks to see and potentially get some feedback about it as well. Today...

In the last two posts on this subject I showed to you how to use UAG with Forms Based Authentication and as ADFS Proxy. Todays demonstration shows how to use it with Strong Authentication – Certificate Authentication. The topology in this configuration is very similar to the FBA topology, but it requires...

In the previous post I showed to you how UAG can be used with ADFS to publish Claims aware application and provide single sign-on into  such applications along with traditional applications which require UserID/password. In that demonstration UAG was configured with Form Based Authentication (FBA...

More and more companies wish to provide secure access to their applications from external locations. At the same time, many of these applications starting to adopt new authentication technologies, for example, like Claims based authentication. The following demonstration shows how companies can use Forefront...

Did you know that you can download virtual labs to your own host system and test Microsoft Business Ready Security (BRS) solutions? It is available to anyone on the Internet. Go check it out for yourself: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=190269 If for some reason you can not download those labs...

  In previous post we started to talk about different complexities of SSO implementations. Lets review what type of solutions are common in current implementations. Current Solutions Federal Agencies employ two primary strategies to provide Single Sign On across multiple Domains, Applications and...

In the next few posts, I’m going to talk about SSO in Enterprise environments, with emphasis on Federal Government Agencies. Federal Agencies are facing multiple issues with managing digital identities for employees and contractors. While most Agencies use Active Directory as their primary authentication...