What's going on here?! Two sign in buttons?
Don't fret, you're not seeing a bug, it's the new Windows Live ID SSO addon I've built for Community Server.
You can now choose how to sign into Liveside.net, via the normal sign in page or via Windows Live ID. This is a slightly hacked way of doing it, which means you're actually associating your Liveside account with a Live ID, but once that's done, you'll be able to sign in via Windows Live ID instead.
If you haven't associated you'll be greeted with this (which explains it better):
Have a play, it should be mostly intuitive.
Notes:
1. Signing in with your Live ID at any site except LiveSide will not log you into LiveSide. Only authenticated sites can do that unfortunately, and that costs money :(
2. Signing out of Live ID anywhere will then sign you out of LiveSide. So if like us you have multiple Live IDs, this will happen quite often. You probably don't want to associate your LiveSide account with Live ID then until they allow you to link multiple Live IDs together. Of course if you don't sign out, you'll be fine.
3. There is no option to disassociate yet. If you want to change your associated Live ID, sign in via LiveSide (the link is in the top right hand corner) but this time use the new Live ID.
About Nick
I'm about to start my final year (hopefully final) of university studying BSc Computing at plymouth university. All things going good so far, on track for a 1:1, which will be a great thing to hide the A-Level grades
I switch between living in plymouth (@ Uni) and in Gilwern (@ Home), both are in the UK tho. Usually via a 4 hour train journey, would be 3 hours if connections where even remotely timed to work. Term times at September -> November, Jan -> March. For my final year
I have 2 blogs, Dev Log on www.nbdev.co.uk and my personal one which is now on www.techienick.com.
www.nbdev.co.uk is my development site, which I've had for near on 5 years now.
I've liked computers for god knows how long now, I think I got my first computer in 1994, which was a compaq. I was only 7 at this time, and I was already on it too much. In about 1996 I managed to pursuade my parents to let me have dail up internet access, and have been on the net daily since then. In 1999 I set up my first website for a friend, and things grew from there, moving from HTML, to PHP, to ASP and now finally ASP.net!
In 2003/4 I stopped making websites, to consentrate on my A-Levels, which went drastically wrong, but I still managed to get the grade for University.
Along with being a CS MVP, I'm also a Microsoft Beta tester, including Windows Live, Exchange Server 2007 SP1, and more.
I'm a loyal technet plus subscriber, not MSDN unfortunatly, too expensive. The subscription gets me cool stuff like, free vista, exchange, windows server, and more
I currently run, and manage a Server on my home network, this is now just Mail for the nbdev.co.uk domain. I co-share a VPS on a telligent employee's beast of server in the USA, with another CS MVP and telligent employee Rick.