What token issuer I can use in Windows Azure?

Question

Hello,

I am building a multi-tenant application in Azure and planning to use Claims (WIF). I do not have ADFS hosted for issuing tokens to the users of my applications.

What options do I have? Is there any commercial offering available?

Thanks & Regards,

Ajay

Answer 1

Azure provides it own token issure in AppFabric Access Control . Check Michele L. Bustamante 's Access Control in the Cloud: Windows Azure AppFabric's ACS for a very well written intro. There's also a demo video at Channel9 on using AC and a client's ADFS to control access to an Azure service, in this case Dallas.

Answer 2

You can now try ACS labs (early version of the service): http://acs.codeplex.com

It now supports WS-Federation.

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AppFabric Access Control can currently only be used for REST endpoints (WRAP, SWT). If you Windows Azure app is a web site, you probably need an STS that supports WS-Federation.

You can build your own (and deploy it on Windows Azure) or you can rely on an STS hosted somewhere else.

To build your own I suggest looking athe starter sts