A scenario that is happening more frequently in SharePoint 2010 is using a single zone for multiple authentication providers. One of the reasons folks do this is because they want to use a some type of claims authentication - like FBA or SAML - but they...

In the first post in this series ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2011/05/05/federated-saml-authentication-with-sharepoint-2010-and-azure-access-control-service-part-1.aspx ) I described how to configure SharePoint to establish a trust directly...

NOTE: As usual the formatting on this site sucks. I recommend you download the Word document attachment with this posting for better reading. I had been looking at Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS) with an interesting eye recently, thinking...