Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Kavitha Radhakrishnan

Jensen Michael Harris

Michael Jay Gilmore

Tyler Kien Beam

Manav Mishra

Rolf Arnold Ebeling

Steven J Ball

Scott David Hoogerwerf

Sermet Iskin

Scott B Graham

Lyon Wong

John Hazen

Benjamin J Karas

Chun-Hung Lin

Katrina M Blanch

David J Nicholson

Aaron W Cardwell

Allen Kim

Guillermo Enrique Rueda Quintero

David Lewis Fisher

Michael D Ritche

Christopher B Dove

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for enabling selective file system access by applications. An application is installed in a computing device. An application manifest associated with the application is received. The application manifest indicates one or more file types that the application is allowed to access. The indicated file type(s) are registered in a location accessible by a broker service. The application is launched as an application process. The application process is isolated in an application container. The application container prevents direct access by the application process to file system data. An access request related to first data of the file system data is received at the broker service from the application process. Access by the application process to the first data is enabled when the broker service determines that a file type of the first data is included in the registered file type(s).

Selective file access for applications

Embodiments are directed to establishing the integrity of a portion of data on at least one level of a plurality of network stack levels and automatically continuing an established federation relationship between at least two federation computer systems. In an embodiment, a first federation computer system receives a digital signature corresponding to a computer system signed by a digital signature which includes the computer system's identity and other federation relationship information configured to establish a trusted federation relationship between a first federation computer system and a second federation computer system. The first federation computer system attempts to validate the received digital signature at a first level of a network stack and determines that the validation at the first network stack layer was unsuccessful. The first federation computer system then validates the received digital signature at a second, different level of the network stack.

Automatic configuration and continuation of federation relationships

Collection user interface techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a plurality of inputs are recognized as gestures received via interaction with a user interface to navigate through a file system of a computing device and select representations of objects managed by file system of the computing device, at least two of which are accessible via different devices. In response, copies of the representations are displayed by the computing device in a collection portion of the user interface. An option is output in conjunction with the collection portion by the computing device that is selectable to initiate a command to be performed using the objects that have corresponding representations included in the collection portion.

Collection user interface

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Kavitha Radhakrishnan