SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) for Apps Using ADFS as IDP | ADFS SSO Login
SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) for Apps Using ADFS as IDP | ADFS SSO Login
ADFS Single Sign-On (SSO) solution allows to login into cloud and on-premise apps by configuring ADFS as IDP (Identity Provider). Here we will go through a step-by-step guide to configure ADFS SAML SSO login between your app/website and ADFS. Here ADFS will act as SAML IdP (Identity Provider) and the application will be considered a Service Provider (SP), with miniOrange acting as an intermediate agent (broker).
Steps to setup ADFS as IDP and miniOrange as Service Provider(SP) for SSO login
1. Configure miniOrange as Service Provider (SP) in ADFS SSO
Mentioned below are steps to configure miniOrange as SP in ADFS via SAML and OAuth configuration. Follow the steps accordingly based on your requirement.
- On ADFS, search for ADFS Management application.
- After opening the ADFS Management, select Relying Party Trust & then click on Add Relying Party Trust.
- Select Claims aware from the Relying Party Trust Wizard and click on Start button.
- Get the miniOrange SP metadata that you will require in the next step. For this, go to the miniOrange Admin Console >> Identity Provider >> Add Identity provider >> SAML Tab. Then click on the Click here link.
Select Data Source
- In Select Data Source, select the data source for adding a relying party trust.
- Select Import data about the relying party published online or on the local network option & then add URL in the Federation metadata address box that you get in the previous step from miniOrange metadata section (Metadata URL).
- Click Next.
- Select Permit everyone as an Access Control Policy and click on Next.
- In Ready to Add Trust, click on Next and then Close.
- In the list of Relying Party Trust, select the application you created and click on Edit Claim Issuance Policy.
- In Issuance Transform Rule tab, click on Add Rule >> OK button.
- Select Send LDAP Attributes as Claims and click on Next.
- Enter the following details & click on Finish.
- You have successfully configured ADFS as IDP (Identity Provider) for achieving ADFS Single Sign-On (SSO) Login by exchanging the metadata between ADFS and miniOrange by creating a Relying party trust with miniOrange.
Choose Access Control Policy
Ready to Add Trust
Edit Claim Issuance Policy
Choose Rule Type
Configure Claim Rule
| Claim rule name: | Attributes |
| Attribute Store: | Active Directory |
| LDAP Attribute: | E-Mail-Addresses |
| Outgoing Claim Type: | Name ID |
2. Configure ADFS as IDP in miniOrange
- Go to miniOrange Admin Console.
- From the left navigation bar select Identity Provider
- Click on Add Identity Provider button.
- Select SAML.
- Get the ADFS Federation Metadata by using this URL:
https://< ADFS_Server_Name >/federationmetadata/2007-06/federationmetadata.xml. - Click on Import IDP metadata.
- Choose appropriate IDP name. Select IDP Metadata as File. Then browse for the file you downloaded in the previous step.
- Click on Import.
- As shown in the below screen the IDP Entity ID, SAML SSO Login URL, Single Logout URL and x.509 Certificate will be filled from the Metadata file we just imported.
- Click on Save.
Follow the steps to configure ADFS as IdP by SAML configuration.
| Domain Mapping | Can be used to redirect specific domain user to specific IDP |
| Show IdP to Users | Enable this if you want to show this IDP to all users during Login |
| Send Configured Attributes | Enabling this would allow you to add attributes to be sent from IDP |
Test Connection (SP-Initiated)
- Go to Identity Providers tab.
- Click on Select>>Test Connection option against the Identity Provider you configured.
- On entering valid ADFS SSO credentials you will see a pop-up window which as shown in below screen.
- Hence your SSO configuration of ADFS as IDP in miniOrange is successfully completed.
- To perform SSO with ADFS as Identity Provider, your application must be https enabled.
- Navigate to Server Manager Dashboard >Tools > ADFS Management.
- Navigate to ADFS > Application Groups. Right click on Application Groups & click on Add Application group then enter Application Name. Select Server Application & click on Next.
- Copy Client Identifier. This is your Client ID. Add Callback URL in Redirect URL. Click on Next.
- Click on Generate shared secret. Copy the Secret value. This is your Client Secret. Click on Next.
- On the Summary screen, click Next. On the Complete screen, click Close.
- Now, right-click on the newly added Application Group and select Properties.
- Click on Add application from App Properties.
- Click on the Add application. Then select Web API and click Next.
- On the Configure Web API screen, enter the domain name address into the Identifier section. Click Add. Click Next.
- On the Choose Access Control Policy screen, select Permit everyone and click Next.
- On the Configure Application Permission, by default openid is selected as a scope. You can select email and, profile as well, then click on Next.
- On the Summary screen, click Next. On the Complete screen, click Close.
- On the Sample Application Properties click OK.
2. Configure ADFS as IDP in miniOrange
- Go to miniOrange Admin Console.
- From the left navigation bar select Identity Providers. Select OAuth.
- Enter the following values.
Follow the steps to configure ADFS as IdP by OAuth configuration.
| IdP Name | Custom Provider |
| IdP Display Name | Choose appropriate Name |
| OAuth Authorize Endpoint | From step 1 | OAuth Access Token Endpoint | From step 1 | OAuth Get User Info Endpoint (optional) | - |
| Client ID | From step 1 |
| Client secret | From step 1 |
| Scope | openid |
3. Configure your Application in miniOrange
Note:
If you have already configured your application in miniOrange you can skip the following steps.
- Login to miniOrange Admin Console.
- Go to Apps >> Add Application.
- Click on Create App under SAML.
- Search for your Application. In case you do not find your app, search for Custom SAML App.
- Get the ACS URL and SP Entity ID from your application.
- Enter the following values OR click on Import SP Metadata:
- Click on Save to configure your application.
- Now to get the IDP metadata of the app configured, Go to apps >> your_app >> select >> metadata tab.
- Click on the Show Metadata details in the Information required to Authenticate via External IDPs section. Download the metadata XML file by clicking on Download Metadata button or copy the Metadata URL link.
- You need to Upload this metadata in your application.
| Service Provider Name | Choose appropriate name according to your choice |
| SP Entity ID or Issuer | Your Application Entity ID |
| ACS URL X.509 Certificate (optional) | Your Application Assertion Consumer Service URL |
| NameID Format | Select urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:emailAddress |
| Response Signed | Unchecked |
| Assertion Signed | Checked |
| Encrypted Assertion | Unchecked |
| Group policy | Default |
| Login Method | Password |
- Click on Create App under OAuth/OIDC. Click on Open ID Connect App .
- You can add any OAuth Client app here to enable miniOrange as OAuth Server. Few popular OAuth client apps for single sign-on are Salesforce, WordPress, Joomla, Atlassian, etc.
- Enter following Values:
- Click on Save
- Now to provide the required data to OAuth client go to the app configured i.e apps >> your_app >> select >> edit.
- When you want to use you want to use miniOrange as OAuth identity server use this endpoint:
https://{mycompany.domainname.com}/moas/idp/openidsso - If you are configuring any Identity Provider in Identity Providers Menu and not using miniOrange as IDP use this endpoint:
https://{mycompany.domainname.com}/broker/login/oauth{customerid}
| Client Name | Add appropriate Name |
| Redirect URL | Get the Redirect-URL from your OAuth Client |
| Descrption | Add if required |
| Group Name | Default |
| Policy Name | As per your Choice |
| Login Method | Password |
Note: Choose the Authorization Endpoint according to the identity source you configure.
- Click on Create App under JWT.
- Select JWT App.
- Configure the name for your application and configure Redirect-URL which tells where to send JWT response. Redirect-URL should be an endpoint on your application where you want to achieve SSO.
- Click Save
- To get the SSO link for your application, Go to Apps >> your_app >> select >> Edit.
- Then, copy the Single Sign On Url and verify SSO setup by browsing that url.
- On successful authentication, you will be redirected to configured Redirect or Callback URL with JWT token
- You will need to download a certificate from App > Manage Apps, and click Certificate link against your configured application. This certificate will be used for signature validation of JWT response.
In case you are setting up SSO with Mobile Applications where you can't create an endpoint for Redirect or Callback URL, use below URL.
https://login.xecurify.com/moas/jwt/mobile
4. Setup Multiple IDPs (Optional)
- Login using IDP selection page: It gives users an option to Select IDP from the dropdown list during login time.
- Domain Mapping: Here we map the email domains to a particular IDP. So when the user enters the Email address with a specific domain he would be redirected to the respective IDP.
- App Identity Provider Mapping: This feature gives users an option to select one specific IDP for their application before login.
You have a choice to set multiple IDPS for Single Application, i.e integrate multiple IDP and users can select IDP accordingly from which they want to authenticate themselves. There are three different ways to authenticate users using IDP.
Note : At once you can select either of them.
- You can configure multiple IDPs (Identity Providers) and give users the option to select the IDP of their choice to authenticate with.
For Example - It could be multiple AD domains belonging to different departments or multiple okta organizations. - Suppose you have a product which many of your clients use and each client has their own unique IDP so you want them to SSO into your product as well using their existing IDP only. miniOrange provides a centralized way to connect with all IDPs in a very easy manner and integrate SSO into your application.
- Suppose you are providing a course to many universities, each having a unique SAML, OAuth protocol supported IDP's like Shibboleth, ADFS, CAS, etc. You can provide Single Sign-On (SSO) into your course application to all these universities by integrating with all of them using a single platform provided by miniOrange.
- This is the endpoint to call from your SAML application -
For Cloud IDP - https://login.xecurify.com/moas/discovery?customerId=<customer_id> For On-Premise IDP - https://yourdomain.com/discovery?customerId=<customer_id> - You should copy the Customer Key from admin console-> Settings -> and replace it with <customer_id> here. Once configured in SP, when you initiate the login from Service Provider, a user will be redirected to IDP Selection Page listing all IDPs configured for that account.
- You can also change the look and feel of this page. Login to miniOrange Admin console. Navigate to Customization -> Branding Configuration. See the below screenshot for reference-
Few usecases where customers configure multiple IDPs -
You can see the screenshot below of the IDP Selection Page with a list of IDPs .
Note: To view the IDP in drop-down list, go to Identity Providers tab > against your configured IDP > Select >Edit , here Enable the Show IdP to Users option.
- You can customize the title of this page.
- Change the logo and favicon for this page.
- Change the background and button color for this page from admin UI.
If you have multiple IDPs and you want a certain set of users to authenticate from one IdP whereas another set of users to authenticate from another IdP, based on their email domains you can achieve this by using the following steps:- Our domain mapping feature
- We have provided a Domain Mapping field under each IdP where admins can enter the domain eg. demo.com , example.com as shown in the screenshot below.
- Once the setup is complete you can login through your Wordpress site.
- So a user logging in with the demo.com domain will be redirected to the first organisation under ADFS.
- User logging in with email address having example.com domain will be redirected to the second organisation under ADFS.
- Once the user will authenticate itself through respective Organisations under ADFS, it will be redirected back to Wordpress site.
Lets say, there are two organisations under ADFS. One want to authenticate the users under the domain demo.com and other one with the domain example.com. For reference, We have taken the 2 organisations as two different IDPs and WordPress as SP. Follow the guides to set up ADFS and WordPress at your end.
- Go to apps >> your_app >> select >>edit.
- Here you will have an option called as an Identity source.
- The dropdown list would show the list of configured IDPs (Identity providers) in miniOrange Identity Providers tab and Userstore.
- Select one IDP you want for this application. Click on Save.
- Now the users of this application would be able to authenticate only by the IDP (Identity Provider) selected from the Identity Source dropdown list.
If you have multiple IDPs (identity provider) and you want a certain application user to authenticate with one IDP and other application users with another IDP then you can achieve this by our Identity Source Feature.
Additional Resources
- What is an Identity Provider(IdP)?
- IdP Vs SP Initiated SSO
- Identity Broker Service
- What is LDAP?
- What is ADFS?
If you are looking for anything which you cannot find, please drop us an email on idpsupport@xecurify.com.
×
![ADFS_sso]()
Hello there!
Need Help? We are right here!
