SharePoint: Incorporating Claims Based Authentication

This morning I received an email from an internal team on Microsoft’s plan to replace the authentication system for SharePoint Server.

This is indeed a great move to incorporate an authentication model that will work with any corporate identity system, including Active Directory, LDAPv3-based directories, application-specific databases and new user-centric identity models, such as LiveID, OpenID and InfoCard systems, including Microsoft’s CardSpace and Novell’s Digital Me.

Read the complete news article here at Network World

6 Comments so far »

  1. Keith said,

    Wrote on November 6, 2007 @ 3:31 am

    Is that planned as an update to the current version, or for Office 14?

  2. Software Development Guide said,

    Wrote on November 17, 2007 @ 8:18 am

    Software Development Guide…

    I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…

  3. Ben said,

    Wrote on November 20, 2007 @ 10:29 pm

    Timescales would be very interesting. Also has anyone heard of OpenID being used as an identity provider for SharePoint sites?

  4. Muhammedh said,

    Wrote on May 12, 2009 @ 9:47 pm

    Hey Ben,
    There’s something called DotNetOpenID. Some people have used it with SharePoint but i havent come across any examples yet.

  5. SharePoint; from an Engineer's Perspective : Claims Based Authentication – an Overview said,

    Wrote on June 3, 2009 @ 2:54 pm

    [...] been out for a little while and word has it that it plays an integral part in SharePoint 2010 (see Alpesh Nakar blog).  Why is it important? According to Microsoft: “Geneva” is Microsoft’s next generation [...]

  6. James Contusion said,

    Wrote on December 11, 2009 @ 4:51 am

    Best series I have seen thus far is the 30 or so at sharepointsecurity.com:

    http://www.sharepointsecurity.com/category/sharepoint/claims-based-authentication/

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