Since we looked at using a custom IdP for Windows Azure Pack last time I figured it would be good to explicitly list some resources for those looking to use ADFS instead as that’s a fairly common scenario people are exploring. Building Clouds Federated Identities to Windows Azure Pack through AD FS – Part 1 of 3: http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2013/12/17/federated-identities-to-windows-azure-pack-through-ad-fs-part-1-of-3.aspx Federated Identities to Windows Azure Pack through AD FS – Part 2 of 3: http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2013/12/17/federated-identities-to-windows-azure-pack-through-ad-fs-part-2-of-3.aspx Federated Identities to Windows Azure Pack through AD FS – Part 3 of 3: http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2013/12/18/federated-identities-to-windows-azure-pack-through-ad-fs-part-3-of-3.aspx TechNet Configure Active Directory Federation Services for Windows Azure Pack: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn296436.aspx Windows Azure Pack (#WAPack) and Related Blogs,…

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In the previous installments of this series we looked at how Windows Azure Pack authenticates users and how it’s configured out of the box for federation. This time around we’re going to look at how you can configure federation with a third party IdP. Microsoft designed Windows Azure Pack the right way. It supports federation with industry protocols out of the box. You can’t say that for many services, and you certainly can’t say that those services support it natively for all versions – more often than not you have to pay extra for it. Windows Azure Pack supports federation, and actually uses it…

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Last time we looked at how Windows Azure Pack authenticates users in the Admin Portal. In this post we are going to look at how authentication works in the Tenant Portal. Authentication in the Tenant Portal works exactly the same way authentication in the Admin Portal works. Detailed and informative explanation, right? Actually, with any luck you’ve read, and were more importantly, able to decipher my explanations in the last post. The reason for that is because we’re going to go a bit deeper into the configuration of how authentication is configured.  If that’s actually the case then you know everything you need…

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Recently Microsoft released their on-premise Private Cloud offering called Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server. Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server is a collection of Windows Azure technologies, available to Microsoft customers at no additional cost for installation into your data center. It runs on top of Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2 and, through the use of the Windows Azure technologies, enables you to offer a rich, self-service, multi-tenant cloud, consistent with the public Windows Azure experience. Cool! There are a fair number of articles out there that have nice write ups on how it works, what it looks…

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