Finally inpired to do Azure Certifications

Inspiration I’ll blame Mike Pfeiffer for leading me down the certification path. I have been considering it for a while and his CloudSkills.fm podcast provided the final impetus. Gregor Suttie: The CloudSkills podcast lead me to Gregor Suttie’s posts on his Azure certification journey, and I’ll likely follow his template of starting with the Administration certification, followed by the Develop exams. More from Gregor on this at From Gregor Suttie Also Ambition and drive to learn Azure [Read More]

Brief review of choosing an SSO solution

At my employer we are currently implementing SSO with the following requirements. Users can be authenticated against a number of identity providers, including: Our SQL database, which may move to Azure Active Directory in future A 3rd party ADFS end point Custom authentication end points hosted by our customers (think asmx services) No social providers for the moment Users should be routed to the appropriate Idp based on some knowledge we have about the user (user enters email/username, we make decision on the Idp(s) to use and forward user to appropriate Idp) We considered the following products based on the these considerations (note, there are a number of other products available, but they either didn’t meet our requirements, were prohibitively expensive, or had so much marketing fluff to wade through that it was difficult to find pricing and feature set): [Read More]