Microsoft introduces new Geneva beta

From CNET News.com: Microsoft introduced the second beta of its Geneva identity-management server platform on Monday, with new features including compatibility with SharePoint 2007 and Microsoft Federation Gateway.

The announcement was made at Microsoft's TechEd conference, which is being held in Los Angeles this week. The first beta was announced in October 2008, with a final release scheduled for the second half of 2009.

Geneva is designed to be an open platform for providing user access to applications and systems, whether they are located on an organization's own premises or on remote infrastructure. It is based on standards such as WS-Federation, WS-Trust and the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0.

The goal of such systems is for users to be able to use the same identity information to access both local applications and cloud-based services, which have grown in popularity in recent months.

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