Is it possible to use SAML tokens in ADFS without needing a Windows Id (Active Directory account)?
Yes, it is possible. ADFS can either use Active Directory accounts as identities, or use federated accounts from an upstream identity provider. You can set up any identity provider that supports SAML2 or WS-FED and connect that to ADFS. Then ADFS will treat users logging in through the upstream identity provider as real identities.
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has anyone successfully configured OKTA as Identity provider (IDP) in Azure Active Directory so that token recieved from OKTA can be leveraged by apps in Azure.
I have gone thru several stackoverflow queries but none has any step by step guidance on how to add it in Azure AD as an external IDP.
any help?
thank you
• Yes, you can configure Okta as an IDP in Azure as a federated identity provider but please ensure that it supports SAML 2.0 or WS-Fed protocol for direct federation to work. Therefore, to proceed further, ensure that organization using Okta as an IDP has its DNS records correctly configured and updated for the domain to be matched with the target domain or a host within the target domain in case of a passive authentication URL.
Once, the DNS records are setup correctly for an IDP’s domain name, then configure the partner IDP with the required claims and relying party trusts such that their SAML metadata file or URL is retrieved and uploaded for adding the Okta using IDP as an external identity as shown below in the snapshot: -
• Once, you have configured the SAML/WS-Fed supporting Okta IDP as a partner/external identity provider in the Azure AD tenant, ensure to configure specific attributes and claims to be configured at the third-party IDP such that these attributes are received in the SAML 2.0 response from the IDP itself when any user tries to login to the Azure AD using Okta identity.
Ensure that the below attributes and claims are received as information in the SAML token from the configured Okta IDP: -
AssertionConsumerService, Audience, Issuer, NameID and http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/emailaddress
From the above snapshot, ensure to fill the following details for configuring the Okta IDP as an external identity provider: -
a) Issuer URI - The issuer URI of the partner's IdP.
b) Passive authentication endpoint - The partner IdP's passive requestor endpoint.
c) Certificate - The signing certificate ID.
d) Metadata URL - The location of the IdP's metadata for automatic renewal of the signing certificate.
Thus, in this way, you can add an Okta based IDP in Azure through federated external identity. For more details regarding this, I would suggest you to please refer to the below links for more details: -
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/external-identities/direct-federation#step-1-determine-if-the-partner-needs-to-update-their-dns-text-records
Okta as IDP in Azure AD
As I am working on SSO, I have my on-premised application on aadb2c and my cloud application is registered on AAD, is there any way to migrate consumer identities by using custom identity provider or any other way
You can use ADFS to consume on prem AD identities. You can add ADFS as identity provider in B2C. You can also sync on-prem identities to AAD and add your AAD directory as identity provider.
Aws Cognito cannot translate correctly incoming Oidc Microsoft Azure generated user_id (microsoft_).
Some chars in the part are treated as capitals and other as lower case with no rule so fails in achieving uniqueness (based on email) when I am calling AdminLinkProviderForUser function.
With Saml connection is working correctly BUT saml doesn't work with accounts out of the current Azure active directory.
I have few very specific questions to come to a understanding on Active Directory usage:
ADFS are the services/software to enable SSO login to applications using a single url for users stored in Active Directory. Right?
LDAP is a protocol that exposes other functionalities like fetching users, deleting user, authentication user via bind method etc. stored in Active Directory. Right?
Then can't LDAP and ADFS both work on the same Active directory? This link:
LDAP support in ADFS got me confused in where it is referring to LD and AD as separate entities.
Can't I apply both the mechanisms on same AD? I only have knowledge of LDAP. Trying to learn ADFS.
ADFS provides SSO capabilities for SaaS services and Modern LOB applications. Traditionally, it uses identities stored in Active Directory Domain Services to validate the credentials for a user. In 2016, we also added support to include identities stored in any 3rd party LDAP directory.
Irrespective of where the identity is stored ADFS offers SSO across the applications that trust it.
Hope this clarifies.
Thanks //Sam (Twitter: #MrADFS)
AD stores users, groups and credentials.
To access an attribute in AD, you use the LDAP protocol via e.g. the C# Directory Services API.
ADFS handles authentication against AD and also adds a federation layer on top of AD.
The correct way to access AD attributes via ADFS is to use claims-based authentication whereby you configure ADFS to provision the attributes (as claims) into the token and then extract them on the client side.
I have users with Single-Sign-On against Microsoft AD using Kerberos tickets. I would need to have these tickets to be "converted" to either SAML or JWT. Do you know of such a service?
Use Azure Active Directory for this, AAD has a Security Token Service (STS) which does exactly this for you.
https://azure.microsoft.com/nl-nl/documentation/articles/active-directory-authentication-scenarios/
You do need to setup ADFS for single signon, but this is something very useful for other scenarios as well.