Confinguring Dev Fabric from SQL Express to SQL Server (Local Instance)

DSInit /sqlInstance:.

Download Windows Identity Foundation

WIF Runtime
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17331

WIF SDK
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=4451

 Add AD FS 2.0 as an Identity Provider in the ACS Management Portal

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg185961.aspx

Steps for Integrating ACS with an ASP.NET Relying Party Application

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg429779.aspx

This topic describes the scenario of integrating ACS with an ASP.NET relying party application. By integrating your web application with ACS, you factor the features of authentication and authorization out of your code. In other words, ACS provides the mechanism for authenticating and authorizing users to your web application. For more information, see Web Applications and ACS.

In this practice scenario, ACS authenticates users with a Google identity into a test ASP.NET relying party application.

Diffrence Between ACS and ADFS

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/acs-and-adfs.aspx

Excellent Video Article about WIF, ADFS , Cloud Integeration
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/Video/ff958033

explain how to create an Azure application using Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) 2.0 Security Token Service (STS), previously known as Geneva Server, for back-end authentication. We also cover the following topics:

1. The benefits of developing Azure applications using ADFS 2.0 STS Federated Identity.
2. The development tool requirements for Azure application development with ADFS 2.0 and the Windows Identity Framework.
3. A step-by-step demonstration on how to create a simple Azure application that authenticates the user to an ADFS 2.0 STS.

Duration: 50 minutes

[ 2:16 ] What is Windows Identity Foundation?
[ 23:17 ] What are some benefits to externalizing authentication?
[ 30:05 ] How to have federated security in a Windows Azure application?

Check out the Windows Azure subscription options at http://bit.ly/TryAzure

It explains Use Access Control Service to Federate with Multiple Business Identity Providers.

Claims-based identity is a simple but powerful way of handling identity and access for your web sites and web services, whether you work on-premises or you are targeting the cloud. The videos and hands-on labs in the Identity Developer Training Course will  you how to take advantage of technologies such as Windows Identity Foundation and the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service for easily solving authentication, authorization and identity-driven personalization challenges. As you go through the course you will soon discover that claims-based identity equips you with skills that can be reused for securing a wide range of application types, from ASP.NET websites to WCF web services.


http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/gg557907

Excellent Article regarding ADFS Setup over ACS and WIF
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/willpe/archive/2010/10/25/windows-authentication-adfs-and-the-access-control-service.aspx

It explains various example sites and implementing ADFS Authentication via code

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8600636/integrate-wcf-with-adfs-2-0-and-acs-some-guide-needed

Nice Article about ADFS 2.0 - Explanation about the how it helping for Cloud based Application Authentication.
I am doing research on this ... So i love it..
http://redmondmag.com/Articles/2010/06/01/ADFS-2-Opens-Doors-to-the-Cloud.aspx?Page=1

Happy Holidays guys