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-----Original Message----- From: David Lum <david....@nwea.org> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 2:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Subject: RE: ADFS + SAML 2.0 w/ Concur = success! If I had a blog, I would. My internal document is far more detailed :-) Dave -----Original Message----- From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 11:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ADFS + SAML 2.0 w/ Concur = success! Now write that up with screen shots and you have a blog article that can be useful to many others. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com > -----Original Message----- > From: David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org] > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 11:56 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: ADFS + SAML 2.0 w/ Concur = success! > > As you guys know, after much gnashing on this list I was finally able > to get SAML working with ADFS. What took too-many hours of banging on > it can know be done soup-to-nuts (including building a server OS from > scratch - just to make sure I have the steps right) in two hours. > > There were a couple of tripping points if you are new to this kind of thing: > 1. Download ADFS 2.0, the ADFS role in 2008 R2 looks different and is > likely > 1.1 and not 2.0 (Google-Fu gives me conflicting info) 2. During > configuration, ADFS 2.0 by default assigns self-signed "token-signing" > and "token- decrypting" certificates, so even if you assign an > appropriate 3rd party certificate for Service Communications in ADFS, > the other two certificates need to be manually reconfigured. This > requires you to turn off "automatic certificate rollover" by using a > PowerShell script (the PS commands are provided in the error message, > you'd think they could offer a little add-in "would you like this > change to be made?" you just click OK to). Once you run this script > you can then add the certificates, and then you need to assign them as > "primary". [1][2] 3. In ADFS there is also a step where you assign the > Federation Service Name, and in our case I used a wildcard cert but > the service name needs to be an explicit host. Whatever name is > assigned here (say SingleSignOn.nwea.org) an appropriate DNS entry (in > my case a > CName) needs to be assigned so the DNS resolves appropriately. > 4. In this particular case, I had to make sure I did NOT assign an > encryption certificate for the relying party 5. The secure hash > algorithm needs to match the vendor (SHA-1 or SHA-256). > > Other than that, it is almost straightforward, LOL. I built a 2nd > machine this morning from scratch - including OS install - to > operating SSO server in about > 2 hours (had to confirm/refine my "build from scratch" documentation). > > David Lum > Systems Engineer // NWEATM > Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 > > [1] There may be a way to do this during setup in ADFS, but I didn't > see it as I was stepping though. > [2] It was this step that gave us "invalid certificate was sent to relying > party" > errors. > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt- > software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to > listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
