Can Shibboleth be integrated with Windows Azure Access Control Service?

Question

Two of our higher-ed clients use Shibboleth for SSO. I have zero experience with Shib, and do not have an instance to test with.

Ultimately we would like to integra

Answer 1

On Azure side, you would use WIF which has extensions to implement SAML 2.0 protocol (apparently still in CTP). You would not use ACS in between in this case. Warning: there are some gotchas while using WIF with ASP.NET MVC

:-) Benjamin

Answer 2

If Azure supports SAML 2.0, then it will, more or less, interoperate with Shibboleth. If it only supports WS-Federation, then it won't for your purposes.