Sunday, December 13, 2009

Visualizing WS-Federation and SAML Profiles

SAML and WS-Federation within ADFSv2 may (or may not) introduce new concepts to the AD administrator. The immediate reaction may be, “I’m not a developer!” However, understanding the technology and how to implement it in the enterprise is no different than understanding Kerberos authentication protocols used by Active Directory. Travis Spencer published a very good slide deck which covers all the dance steps for both WS-Federation and SAML profiles. This is really good and helps visualize what happens behind all the federation acronyms and terms.

Animated Explanation of SAML

2 comments:

Travis Spencer said...

Glad to hear that the slides were helpful. I love your blog, and read it all the time. Keep the good identity-related posts coming ;-)

- said...

Thanks Travis! Your site is a great resource for helping promote the adoption of the technology. - Chris