US Federations Discussion

[Suresh Balakrishnan <>]

Colleagues:

 

As a reminder, our next US Federations call will take place on Wednesday, May 18^th at 4:00 p.m. EDT and will feature Paul Caskey from the University of Texas System and Larry Gilreath from Microsoft Education, who will present and discuss how Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) integrates with federation trust services and its implementation at the University of Texas System.  Paul Caskey is CTO at the University of Texas System and Larry Gilreath is A Technology Specialist at Microsoft.

 

Please join us on May 18^th.  The detailed agenda includes:

 

I.                    Introduction of Larry & Paul

II.                  AD FS 2

a.      What it does?

                                                              i.      Bridge between AD and Shibboleth

                                                            ii.      Bridge between Shibboleth and Applications

b.      How it fits into Fed Trust solutions

                                                              i.      STS, SP, IDP

c.       Flexibility

                                                              i.      WS-Trust or SAML 2

                                                            ii.      Robust scripting

                                                          iii.      Ability to Extend (a platform for federated trusts)

d.      How UT is using ADFS

III.                Policies of Federating

a.      Participant Operational Practices

IV.                Q & A

 

 

The call in number is 1-877-944-2300, access code 99205# and the link to the Adobe Connect meeting room is http://educause.adobeconnect.com/iam/.  We look forward to speaking with you then.

 

Regards,

 

-George Laskaris & Suresh Balakrishnan