TechEd Europe 2010 Day 2 

This day had a definite theme: Claims based authentication. A new way of authenticating your users for SharePoint 2010. Specially the sessions by Wouter van Vugt gave a clear step by step way of getting Claims based authentication to work:

1. Understand claims based authentication

2. Set up your Security Token Service, which could be ADFS V2 on top of an AD and define the claims it will provide

3. Register the STS and its certificate as a new Home Realm in SharePoint

4. Enable the registered STS in a Web App in SharePoint.

5. Configure the way SharePoint will decide which Home Realm should be used

6. Configure how the claims will be used which kind of user you will be in SharePoint 2010

7. Log on

After these steps several things: There is no UI to register the STS and its certificate as a new Home Realm only Powershell scripts. You will probably also need a proxy STS when you want to accept external logins in the DMZ. You might want to look at the new “ADFS in the Cloud” Azure AppFabric Access Control Service. So you see, a lot has changed since you only had Windows Authentication and Forms Based Authentication.

This post is quite short, but this has to do with me attending the Windows 7 Phone Developers Party in the Sudstern Brewery. I met a lot of interesting people and talked all night with people from all over Europe. I got to test all beers they had on offer and I must recommend the Heller and Weisse. These beers also made me forget most about what happened today.