In today’s complex market place of corporate partnerships and relationships, sharing information is pertinent to ensuring that business operations are conducted in a secure computing environment with trusted entities being provided access to protected information. In this session, Dan and Scott will discuss the basics of authentication and authorization in relation to the SharePoint platform. Further, we will be discussing the technical underpinnings of the SharePoint platform’s processing of a user’s identity dependent on identity provider and authorization settings. As a part of this session we will demonstrate different authentication and authorization configurations that are common place in today’s business settings to include when to use: • Integrated Windows Authentication • Forms Based Authentication using SQL Server • ADFS as a Trusted Identity Provider • Threat Management Gateway with Kerberos Constrained Delegation using client certs After attending this session, attendees will have a better grasp of the configuration complexities involved with each scenario as well as the user experience impacts based on the path taken.