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The August update of the AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS) is the largest yet of the AppFabric updates and  features federated-identity  support for OpenID, Facebook, Google. Also in the August update are: Integration with WIF (Windows Identity Foundation) and tooling. Support for Active Directory Federation Server v2.0 Support for the SAML 1.1, SAML 2.0, and Simple Web Token (SWT) token formats [...]

The Access Control service handles the validation of users of an Azure service. Developers can set up an Access Control for an Azure service and define the users that can access the service and what authorizations those users have.Users hitting the service will then seemlessly be channeled through the Access Control which will generate a [...]

The Service Bus is the Azure service for connecting different applications and services through Azure. Several application design patterns are possible using the Service Bus: Eventing – Notifying applications or devices of events and  passing instructions. At PDC an Azure ticketing application was demonstrated which allowed for physical tickets to be printed in several locations [...]