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Microsoft Geneva works with third-party identity systems

By David Worthington

May 12, 2009 — The second beta of “Geneva,” Microsoft’s principal identity management solution for on-premises and cloud applications, interoperates with identity solutions from CA, Novell, SAP and Sun.

Geneva beta 2 was released yesterday and is now available for download.

Geneva enables identities to be federated to new services in the cloud and in a service-oriented architecture, said Brendan Foley, director of product management for Microsoft's Identity & Security Business Group. “It extends security across the enterprise."

Geneva technology is the foundation of the identity and security capabilities of Windows Azure services, as well as Microsoft Federation Gateway, he said. Geneva is an on-premises solution, but it can federate with Microsoft cloud services when used in combination with Federation Gateway.

Beta 2 interoperates with CA Federation Manager and SiteMinder, Novel Access Manager, SAP NetWeaver, and Sun OpenSSO enterprise. Beta 1 was successfully tested to interoperate with IBM Tivoli, Ping Identity, and Shibboleth, said Foley.

The interoperability is made possible through support for standards, including Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML), and the Web Services Protocol Stack, including WS-Identity, WS-Security, and WS-Trust, he explained.

Microsoft plans to certify with the Liberty Alliance for SAML 2.0 certification and will expand its testing to include other partners. It will also complete SAML conformance testing via a third-party organization, Foley noted. Microsoft has a hosted implementation of Geneva server at www.federatedidentity.net to facilitate interoperability testing.

Beta 2 also provides federated document collaboration with SharePoint 2007, Visual Studio templates for building claims-aware ASP.NET and WCF services, end-to-end silent provisioning of Information Cards, support for federated Rights Management Services, and a new claims transformation engine that sources claims from Active Directory, SQL Server and other custom stores.

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