Doug McDorman |
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- Having previously been a ski instructor and ski patrol, Doug now looks forward to heli-skiing again when he isn't training for triathlons.
- Doug resides in the Seattle, WA area with his family and remains a proud Canadian citizen.
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Doug McDorman
Phone: 216.785.2990
Fax: 216.674.2708
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Doug McDorman
Principal Consultant
Identity & Access Management
Doug McDorman is a Principal Consultant in the Identity & Access Management group at Certified Security Solutions (CSS).
Doug specializes in authentication systems and solving complex problems in global heterogeneous enterprises with tools such as federation using SAML and WS-Federation, cross-platform authentication and authorization using Kerberos and LDAP, and X.509 certificate deployment with custom designed Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) systems. Doug is co-author of the “Windows Security and Directory Services for UNIX Guide” from Microsoft.
While at CSS Doug has helped enterprise customers in the Finance, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Retail and Educational fields deploy solutions such as Single Sign-On systems (SSO), Federating with partners, and one of the largest Microsoft Certificate Services PKI deployments in existence.
Doug has over 16 years of experience in computer security, programming, databases, Internet technologies, and networking. His previous experience includes software development and management at CyberSafe, a Kerberos infrastructure product company, a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Queen’s University, Canada, and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Washington.
Latest Blog Posts from Doug McDorman
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A PowerShell script to find AD FS 2.0 errors November 2nd, 2011
So one of your users has received an error from AD FS 2.0, and you need to determine what the problem is. Unfortunately, sometimes the error message doesn’t give much of a clue—for example the web page shown below.
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AD FS 2.0 and One-Way Cross-Forest Trusts September 6th, 2011
So you want to make some of your applications available using federation but you have multiple forests. What can you do? Well, if you have two-way trusts between your forests, you’re in luck, because AD FS works very well if you have two-way trusts between the forests. But what if you have only a one-way trust between forests? Then what?
