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Getting a SecurityToken from a RequestSecurityTokenResponse in WIF

When you’re working with WIF and WSTrustChannelFactory when you call the Issue operation, you can also request that a RequestSecurityTokenResponse as an out parameter. However, what can you do with that object? Well, you could keep it around and use it for subsequent calls with the extension method CreateChannelWithIssuedToken

Learn More about Microsoft Codename "Trust Services" - TechNet Articles - Home - TechNet Wiki

Many companies, ISV’s, and solutions have concerns about data in the cloud. With PKI based encryption, Trust Services provides key management for your publisher/subscribers and a simplified SDK set of classes to abstract the encryption, decryption process. Both managed classes and PowerShell add-in provided... Learn More about Microsoft

Making Windows Azure Drive Letter Persistent

Windows Azure Fieldnote Summary Windows Azure Drives [1] provide a means to represent a file based (disk drive) persistent storage option for the various role types within Windows Azure Compute. Each of the roles within Windows Azure can mount and utilize for persistent storage (that survives reboot, reimaging, and updated

Viewing the User Token from Visual Studio 2010 Debugger

When you’re debugging security related things, sometimes you need to take a look at the thread identities user token. When you’re inside of Visual Studio 2010 – in the watch windows you enter ‘$user’ and you’ll get the same as when in windbg with !token –n

Microsoft TechNet–Create PDF Takeaway chapters for your set of topics–great feature just added..

If you’re like me, having those PDF version for offline review are great. It was a pain before as I had to individually print web pages to single PDF using tools. Now, TechNet can track a “book” of topics for you, and then generate HTML or PDF for you

Dennis Ritchie, Father of C and Co-Developer of Unix, Dies | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

Wow – I still have my K&R book from a class I took at AT&T. Cut my teeth on nix… Dennis Ritchie, Father of C and Co-Developer of Unix, Dies | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

Description of Update Rollup 1 for Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0

Multiple UPN support now available… Description of Update Rollup 1 for Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0