In this issue: Tips for Working at Home; VIS, Federation and Other Suggested Reading Material
The Optimal Brief | January 2020
Tips For Working At Home – Advice From a Virtual Business Owner

With many of us now setting up shop on the dining room table to try and maintain business as usual, Larry Aucoin, managing partner of Optimal IdM, offers some advice on how to adjust to a work-at-home lifestyle.
101 Uses For A Virtual Directory

What if you could use a single interface to maintain a single entity (logon) across all connected disparate directory services including hundreds of Active Directory (A.D.) forests, manage all A.D. forests in a single console - along with SQL identity tables,and manage thousands of legacy identity application pools of disconnected identity stores? Believe it or not, all of this and more is possible with a virtual directory.
Troubleshooting Federation
With Fiddler

Fiddler is simply the best tool to debug federation issues.  Whether it's to debug WS-Federation issues, debug SAML 2.0 federation issues, or to debug Oauth2 and OpenID Connect federation issues, nothing beats Fiddler.
Stay At Home Reading Material
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