Who Am Ihttp://www.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/vijay/default.aspxAnother .Text Powered BlogenCommunityServer 2008 SP1 (Build: 30619.63)To Blog or not To Blog... To Bloghttp://www.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/vijay/archive/2006/03/05/19654.aspxSun, 05 Mar 2006 13:48:00 GMTd057c89c-07b5-4bfb-b52f-d79d1e3ece89:19654vijay-gajjala0http://www.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/vijay/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=19654http://www.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/vijay/archive/2006/03/05/19654.aspx#comments<P><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Over the last couple of years, <A href="http://pluralsight.com/blogs/keith/default.aspx">Keith</A>, <A href="http://www.douglasp.com/blog/default.aspx">Doug </A>the Meta Man, <A href="http://pluralsight.com/blogs/mgudgin/default.aspx">Gudge </A>the Great&nbsp;and a bunch of others, had promised that I would succumb to the urge to spout... I have resisted so far, clearly&nbsp;in vain... </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Verdana size=2>I work as a Program Manager in Identity and Access Group (IDA) at Microsoft. I was named Vijay by my parents and carry the family name Gajjala which I am fond of mentioning sounds like &#8220;Godzilla&#8221;... </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Verdana size=2>IDA group at Microsoft is &#8220;awesome&#8221;...&nbsp;</FONT><FONT face=Verdana size=2>I am connected to the&nbsp;now famed <A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/building/infocard/">InfoCard</A>;&nbsp;&nbsp;to the team that produced <A href="http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsServer2003/R2/Identity_Management/ADFSwhitepaper.mspx">Active Directory Federation Services </A>in R2; and I get to work with <A href="http://www.dynamic-cast.com/">HerveyW&nbsp;</A>on the STS... And in case it is not clear, this group is about Identity and Security Access Control not about Microsoft Access - the DataBase... </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Watch this space if you want to know about Microsoft's work in the areas&nbsp;of <A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/webservices/understanding/advancedwebservices/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwebsrv/html/identitymetasystem.asp">Identity</A>, Identity Federation and distributed Authorization, and my philosophical opinions around these topics.</FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Keith, Doug, Gudge, this is fun :-)</P></FONT><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://www.pluralsight.com/community/aggbug.aspx?PostID=19654" width="1" height="1">