Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Michael Robert Van Waardhuizen

Zachary J Shallcross

John Lincoln DeMaris

Alexandru Dan Burst

Steve Rayson

Alin Sirbu

Mary David Pasch

Ariel Nicolas Gordon

Sarat Chandra Subramaniam

Sam Franklin Williams, Iii

Eric Wayne Doerr

William Thomas

Jonathan Yoder Brenner

Tia Bianca Caldwell

Amy Caryl Nathanson

An item is shared based on an information boundary and access control settings. An application such as a document management application detects a selection of an information boundary to manage a sharing action associated with the item. The information boundary includes rules to define how the item is shared. A selection of an access control list is also detected to manage recipients who have an access to the item. The access control list allows a recipient in the list an ability to search and discover the item. In response to a detection of the sharing action to share the item, the information boundary and the access control list is applied to the item. The item is then shared based on the information boundary and the access control list through a link of the item transmitted to a recipient.

Item sharing based on information boundary and access control list settings

Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for discovering and disambiguating identity providers such that user knowledge of appropriate identity providers is minimized. Users are presented with options for selecting appropriate providers only when multiple providers have user profiles matching a user identifier. When users are presented with options for selecting appropriate providers, providers that have user profiles matching the identifier are identified utilizing identity information for the application that utilizes the identity provider for its users rather than information identifying the identity provider itself. Where it is determined that no identity provider has a user profile associated with the user identifier (or where it is determined that a particular identity provider would generally be appropriate to be utilized with the user identifier), the opportunity for users to create an authentication account with one or more identity providers or to retry with a different user identifier is provided.

Discovering and disambiguating identity providers

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