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SharePoint Claim Authentication
We are trying to authenticate users to SharePoint 2016 using IDP-Initiated SAML 2.0. The SAML token is generated from PingFederate and sent to ADFS which in turn sends it to SharePoint (Relying Party...
This is a tough one. Why are you feeding into ADFS from PingFederate, rather than straight from AD?
Hi Nick,
AD is not the identity provider. We use a different LDAP directory with PingFederate as its Federation Server.
- I have customers who integrate SharePoint with PingFed directly. You should be able to do this... one thing to note is that SharePoint only supports SAML 1.1.
Hi Trevor,
That is what we tried initially. But we found out that the WS-Federation protocol is not enabled in PingFederate and there are no plans to enable it. That why we came up with the idea to use ADFS in the middle.
- PingFed does have an integration kit for SharePoint. I haven't personally used it, but it is available from https://www.pingidentity.com/en/products/downloads.html. You may also want to contact support @ Ping. You shouldn't need ADFS at all in this scenario.
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