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ACS is short for Windows Azure Access Control Service

The Windows Azure Access Control Service provides federated authentication using Google, Yahoo, Live Id, Facebook and other WS-Federation partners such as ADFS.

ACS has been deprecated in favor of Azure AD. The functionality of ACS is being merged into AAD.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/ad/archive/2015/02/12/the-future-of-azure-acs-is-azure-active-directory.aspx

MSDN documentation

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Associate multiple claims based identity providers to one user with ASP.NET

In an ASP.NET MVC 4 application using the .NET 4.5 framework in conjunction with Azure Access Control Service (ACS), I want to provide the users multiple authentication possibilities (i.e. Google, Facebook, Windows Live, etc.). What is the "best…
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When not to use ACS?

I've been researching the Azure Access Control Service (ACS), and it looks like it's especially good at handling authentication from heterogeneous (configurable) identity providers. Then there are a number of additional scenarios that it appears to…
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Azure ACS - Best Practice Implementation

We are building an ASP.NET MCV 3 application from scratch running on Windows Azure. About Authentication and Authorization layer we are thinking to use the Access Control Service. I went through some articles about ACS where I got the basic idea but…
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How to develop user-authenticated REST service with Azure ACS

I'm developing a REST service that uses MS Azure Access Control Service for authentication. If the examples are any indication, the typical way to secure a REST service this way would be to provide a global username and pw, private key, or X.509…
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Ws-Federation Authentication in MVC not keeping Claims information after SAML2.0 verification

I'm trying to add a new auth method with Azure ACS to support users from an ADFS but I'm having a very specific issue. I'm able to validate the SAML2.0 with the following config: var audienceRestriction = new…
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Cookie is null in rare cases after redirecting to ACS and back

On my website, there is a registration form. After having filled this in, the user gets redirected to Azure ACS in order to log in. After having logged in, the user gets redirected back to my website and is to be registered and logged in. The…
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How to get access token from ACS via SAML assertion?

I was able to retrieve, decode the security token (SWT) from various identity providers configured in ACS. Now I should be - according to example - able to do this: String headerValue = string.Format("WRAP access_token=\"{0}\"",…
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Azure Access Control Service (ACS) - ACS50001: Relying party with identifier 'https://[namespace].accesscontrol.windows.net/' was not found

I have an ACS namespace with a WS-Federation identity provider set up. Since I'm using Visual Studio 2012, I used the Identity and Access Tool to create the relying party. The tool uses the realm and return url values that I give it when it creates…
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Unable to sign out from Active Directory when using Azure ACS

I am using ACS 2.0 in my MVC 4 application. It is already configured for signing in, and it works for various providers including ADFS. I need to implement sign-out functionality. As this question is already outdated, I used the code from these…
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Is using SAML bearer tokens for authenticating users to backend services a bad idea?

Suppose I have a front-end application that wants to fetch some data from a back-end service. (I do.) The service will need to verify that the end-user is authenticated, that it is authorized to use the service and possibly filter the returned data…
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How to register window.external.notify event handler in Javascript

I'm trying to use Azure Access Control Service in HTML/JavaScript application. The following code sample is going to display token after authentication against selected identity provider:
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Custom STS & Azure ACS error ACS50008: Invalid SAML token

I have a custom STS implementation. Currently it is configured as an additional identity provider on Azure ACS. I have a relying party website that is authenticating successfully via ACS (Windows Live, Google, etc). However, whenever I try to login…
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How do I authenticate to a WCF service via ACS integration with Windows Live ID?

I have a WCF service that uses UserName authentication via ACS. This works great when I'm using Service Identities but when I try to use my Windows Live ID credentials I get the following error: System.ServiceModel.FaultException: ACS10002: An error…
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Validating a SWT Token REST WCF Service

I'm currently working on a WPF client, which obtains a SWT token from Windows Azure AppFabric ACS. With this token I want to consume a RESTful WCF Service. I used this tutorial to obtain the SWT token and it works perfect. With the help of this MSDN…
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Configure existing VNET while creating Microsoft Azure Container Service (DC/OS)

We have our own VNET configured. I would like to use the same VNET / subnet while creating the ACS service. I am using DC/OS. Can I configure the VNET / Subnet and NSG through Azure ACS template ?
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