Settings - Windows LiveID

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You can access these settings in the Settings application under the Security & Membership -> Authentication -> Windows LiveID category. On this tab, you can configure Windows Live ID authentication.

General

Enable Windows Live ID authentication

Indicates if users are allowed to sign in to the website using Windows Live ID (personal Microsoft account) credentials.

Application ID

The identifier of the related Microsoft authentication application. Enter the Application (client) ID of your application. For more information, see Registering your application to use Microsoft accounts.

Application secret

Secret code used to encrypt messages transferred between your website and the Microsoft authentication application. Enter a valid Application client secret value for your authentication application. For more information, see Registering your application to use Microsoft accounts.

Assign new users to roles

New users registered via Live ID authentication will be assigned to the roles specified here.

Required user data page

URL of a page containing the Required LiveID user data web part. If entered, new Live ID users who log into the site will not have their user account created immediately, but will first be redirected to the specified page where they will be required to enter some additional data (or merge with an existing account) using the web part.