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Hi everyone.  Good news:  Active Directory Federation Services 2.0<\/a>(AD FS 2.0) has been finalized and is now available for download! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AD FS 2.0 is a role in Windows Server that simplifies access and single sign-on to both on-premises and cloud-based applications.  Using \u201cclaims-based\u201d identity technology, it helps enable secure business collaboration and productivity within the enterprise, across organizations, and on the Web.  (We also released Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint today, and published some high-level recommendations around ensuring more secure collaboration.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the top scenarios AD FS 2.0 will support are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.\u00a0Collaboration with Office documents and SharePoint across companies with single sign-on access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.\u00a0Single sign-on access to hosted\/cloud services, extended from on-premises Active Directory to Microsoft (or other) cloud services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.\u00a0Implementation of access security and management policies to many different applications with varied security requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, AD FS 2.0 will help you streamline user access management with a simpler, unified approach and native single sign-on. It builds on AD and interoperates with other directories via WS* and SAML support, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, because it provides a single user access model that can be applied again and again, AD FS 2.0 also helps provide better, more consistent application security.  It puts access control decisions where they should be:  In the hands of IT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The AD FS 2.0 planning and deployment guide is here<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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