> Not sure if this is the correct newsgroup but I'm looking at ADFS as a way
> to
> provide SSO to multiple web based applications over the Internet.
> Unfortunately, one of the apps was written in classic ASP and is too big
> to
> change any time soon.
>
> Can ADFS support classic ASP as well as .NET based applications? Are there
> any special concerns or issues?
>
> Any quick advice or URL to a whitepaper that addesses classic ASP would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> RT
>

"Joe Kaplan" wrote:

> I suppose you could ask that here. :) I'm not sure if there is a perfect
> group for ADFS yet.
>
> ADFS has two supported methods for app integration:
> Claims-aware
> Windows token
>
> Claims-aware apps are the most flexible, but you are limited not only to
> ..NET apps but those that use .NET 2.0+ so that won't work for you.
>
> Windows token-integrated apps will support basically anything that runs on
> IIS including classic ASP, but the app has to be designed essentially to
> work with Windows security. The web server must be a domain member of the
> same forest the resource ADFS server is in. If the app is designed to use
> integrated Windows auth (or Basic) right now and authenticates domain users,
> then this integration should not be difficult. If the app uses a custom
> authentication mechanism like forms auth, then this will likely be more
> tricky.
>
> I'm not sure what the best documents to look at are for ADFS app integration
> just yet. Keith Brown had a pretty decent high level overview in MSDN
> magazine a while ago.
>
> I know all the nuts and bolts and can answer all sorts of specific questions
> if you post back here. We also host a forum on ADFS at
> www.directoryprogramming.net, but I'm not really picky as to what discussion
> forum you use.
>
> HTH,
>
> Joe K.
>
> --
> Joe Kaplan-MS MVP Directory Services Programming
> Co-author of "The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming"
> http://www.directoryprogramming.net
> --
> "Robert Thompson" <RobertThompson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:F980AC08-F9CF-4143-B40C-1CE907579D6F@microsoft.com...
> > Not sure if this is the correct newsgroup but I'm looking at ADFS as a way
> > to
> > provide SSO to multiple web based applications over the Internet.
> > Unfortunately, one of the apps was written in classic ASP and is too big
> > to
> > change any time soon.
> >
> > Can ADFS support classic ASP as well as .NET based applications? Are there
> > any special concerns or issues?
> >
> > Any quick advice or URL to a whitepaper that addesses classic ASP would be
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > RT
> >
>
>