How do you test a world-class product like ADFS 2.0? Performance, stress testing, security, and the classic aspects of server testing need to be compounded with all supported topologies and platforms, as well as the 18 languages in which the product is

available.Summarizing in 30 minutes what happened during the many man-years that went into the product is not easy. In this video, ADFS team members Ramiro Calderon and Toland Hon

share some of the project's most interesting challenges and discuss how they prevailed upon them while taking ADFS 2.0 from inception to release.

Today we are announcing the general availability of Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 (ADFS 2.0).

In this lightning-fast video, Stuart Kwan, Group Program Manager for the Identity and Security Division, lists the essential facts about this new, exciting release.Tune in!

ADFS 2.0 is being released today, but there is a group that has been using it for almost two years: Microsoft's IT department, which dogfooded ADFS 2.0 from the very first pre-release.Brian Puhl, Principal System Architect, and Femi Aladesulu, Service Engineer, share their vast experience in using ADFS 2.0, which they earned handling access to the Microsoft IT application portfolio on premises and in the cloud.

From the topology of Microsoft's internal ADFS 2.0 deployment to the description of how day-to-day operations (such as a new application's onboarding) are handled, Brian and Femi will take you on a whirlwind tour. Today, Microsoft IT is able to offer identity

as a reliable, self-provisioned service. Tune in to get tips that will help you to achieve the same results!

In this third and last IdElement installment on the U-Prove CTP series, we once again feature Dr. Stefan Brands, who spends an hour describing the crypto behind U-Prove. Wrapping your head around all the mathematical details may require some effort, but

if you are interested in this space it is totally worth it. By the end of the video, you will have a clear understanding of how U-Prove works and how it can truly reconcile security and privacy requirements.If you want to go even deeper, Stefan's book on the topic is

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In basic terms, minimal disclosure is a solution that discloses the least amount of identifying information while best limiting and constraining the use of identity-related information. In this episode of the IdElement, Dr. Stefan Brands, Principal Architect,

shares the details of the highly anticipated U-Prove CTP, including availability of JAVA and C# toolkits and cryptographic specification. He also describes some edgy identity and security scenarios that the cryptographic protocols can enable with Windows

CardSpace, Windows Identity Foundation, and Active Directory Federation Services.

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