ADFS export and import claim transformation rules

Moving to AD FS it is wise to prepare to lab to test the whole infrastructure and then move to the production. One of the most frustrating things you will have to do is the claim transformation rules that you will have to setup between all Claims Providers and the Relying parties. Fortunately instead of using the UI and adding the rules one by one, you can setup only one and the export and import the claims rules to the rest of the parties.

Windows Indentity Foundation – Custom Security Token Service and the relying party configuration

The last couple of days I’ve been coding with the Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) in order to create a WS Federation Security Token Service (STS) that provides the user authentication for multiple relying parties (RPs). I decided to write a small tutorial and a sample (full commented) project that describes the basic steps that are required in order to setup the authentication via passive federation.

The need of claim based security model and identity federation

The last couple of days I have been working on Windows Identity Foundation. In order to take advantage of this framework, you should start writing claim based application. Forget the old fashion role based and start demanding claims! Why to convert to claim based application you may wonder... There are many reasons why you should do that but the most appealing ones I can think of are the following: