Next coming months I’ll be having a few talks about Single Sign-On (SSO), Windows Identity Foundation (WIF), Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 (AD FS) and Federation.

• IASA Norway (Oslo) 18th of March – SSO Across Applications and Organizations
• MSDN Live (16th, 20th, 23rd and 26th of April in Stavanger, Trondheim, Bergen and Oslo)

The IASA talk will be a 1/2 hour high level presentation of how to accomplish Single Sign-On (SSO) across applications and organizations. One of my motivations for heading over to Oslo to do this talk is to hear and meet the other speakers that night as well as attending the Open Space session at the end. Overall topic for the night is “Security in Architecture”.

At MSDN Live I’ll go more in depth into WIF and how to simplify identity management in and across applications. I will also show AD FS, but more as a simple way of setting up a Security Token Service (STS) and not go into the inner workings of AD FS. At MSDN there’s a great variety of talks, so check out the agenda!

Hope to see you there!

In the last couple of weeks we (NNUG Bergen) have remotely worked on setting up a user group event together with AltNetBeers with support from QCon London. As of today about 100 people have signed up and will show up at the Glass House on Thursday 18:30. So what have we planned? Well, the QCon speakers: Corey Haines, Udi Dahan, Dan North, Oren Eini (Ayende), Ben Hall, Roy Osherove and Jon Skeet are coming! And if that’s not interesting enough, the AltNetBeers guys are organizing an hour fish-bowl beer-fueled open-space. To get in the proper mood ThoughtWorks will buy us some beers I bet you’re sorry if you’re not in London or heading for QCon now!

Btw. you don’t need to be a QCon attendee to come to this event. You can sign up here. Hope to see you there.