Control access

Claims-based authentication addresses privacy and other compliance concerns by requesting less specific, less personal information about people, and by trusting other parties or systems to determine proof of identity. Claims about a user such as age or group membership can be used to regulate access.

Open standards

SharePoint Server 2010allows communication using open standards and provides a platform for developing more specialised identity connectors between systems.

Works with any ID system

Claims-based authentication works with a number of corporate identity systems, including Active Directory, LDAP-based directories, application-specific databases, as well as new user-centric identity models, such as Windows Live ID.