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Single Sign-On (SSO) for Apps Using ADFS as IDP | ADFS SSO Login

miniOrange's ADFS as IdP (Identity Provider) solution allows users to login to applications/websites using Single Sign-on (SSO) . It is possible to implement ADFS SSO Single Sign-On by configuring ADFS as SAML IDP in miniOrange, where miniOrange will act as SP.

miniOrange also acts as an identity broker for cross-protocol authentication. It involves configuring a Service Provider using one protocol with an Identity Provider using another protocol, such as SAML, OAuth, OpenID, JWT, etc. Using ADFS as an IDP, users can securely access their website/application once configured successfully.

This setup guide explains how users can configure Single Sign-On (SSO) login between SAML or OAuth applications and ADFS. ADFS is considered an Identity Provider (IDP) and their SAML or OAuth application are 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 (SAML or OAuth).

SAML
OAuth

On ADFS, search for ADFS Management application.

ADFS as IDP SSO login - 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.

Configuring ADFS as IdP : import SP metadata

Select Data Source

In Select Data Source, select the data source for adding a relying party trust.

Metadata URL
Metadata XML file
Manual Configuration

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.

Choose Access Control Policy

Select Permit everyone as an Access Control Policy and click on Next.

Select permit everyone as access policy to integrate adfs SAML IDP

Ready to Add Trust

In Ready to Add Trust, click on Next and then Close.

Edit Claim Issuance Policy

In the list of Relying Party Trust, select the application you created and click on Edit Claim Issuance Policy.

Select your application to claim issuance policy

In Issuance Transform Rule tab, click on Add Rule >> OK button.

Choose Rule Type

Select Send LDAP Attributes as Claims and click on Next.

Configure Claim Rule

Enter the following details & click on Finish.

Claim rule name:	Attributes
Attribute Store:	Active Directory
LDAP Attribute:	E-Mail-Addresses
Outgoing Claim Type:	Name ID

Submit Claim rule name, attribute store and Claim type

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.

2. Configure ADFS as IDP in miniOrange

Follow the steps to configure ADFS as IdP by SAML configuration.

Go to miniOrange Admin Console.
From the left navigation bar select Identity Provider
Click on Add Identity Provider button.

Configuring ADFS as IdP : Identity Provider

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.

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

Click on Save.

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.

ADFS as IDP SSO configuration successful

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.

OAuth / OPenID Single Sign On (SSO) using ADFS, 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.

OAuth / OPenID Single Sign On (SSO) using ADFS, Application Group

Copy Client Identifier. This is your Client ID. Add Callback URL in Redirect URL. Click on Next.

OAuth / OPenID Single Sign On (SSO) using ADFS, Client Identifier

Click on Generate shared secret. Copy the Secret value. This is your Client Secret. Click on Next.

OAuth / OPenID Single Sign On (SSO) using ADFS, Generate Client Secret

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.

OAuth / OPenID Single Sign On (SSO) using ADFS, Add application

On the Configure Web API screen, enter the domain name address into the Identifier section. Click Add. Click Next.

OAuth / OPenID Single Sign On (SSO) using ADFS, SSO Login Configure

On the Choose Access Control Policy screen, select Permit everyone and click Next.

OAuth / OPenID Single Sign On (SSO) using ADFS, Access Control Policy

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.

OAuth / OPenID Single Sign On (SSO) using ADFS, Configure Application

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

Follow the steps to configure ADFS as IdP by OAuth configuration.

Go to miniOrange Admin Console.
From the left navigation bar select Identity Providers. Select OAuth.

Enter the following values.

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.

SAML Application
OAuth Application
JWT 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:

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 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.

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:

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

Click on Save
Now to provide the required data to OAuth client go to the app configured i.e apps >> your_app >> select >> edit.

Note: Choose the Authorization Endpoint according to the identity source you configure.

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}

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.

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

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.

Download certificate to proceed with SSO

4. Setup Multiple IDPs (Optional)

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.

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.

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.

Few usecases where customers configure multiple IDPs -

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 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.

Select your IDP (Identity Provider) to login

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-

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Select IDP from which you want to authenticate users

Now the users of this application would be able to authenticate only by the IDP (Identity Provider) selected from the Identity Source dropdown list.

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Single Sign-On (SSO) for Apps Using ADFS as IDP | ADFS SSO Login

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Single Sign-On (SSO) for Apps Using ADFS as IDP | ADFS SSO Login

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

Select Data Source

Choose Access Control Policy

Ready to Add Trust

Edit Claim Issuance Policy

Choose Rule Type

Configure Claim Rule

2. Configure ADFS as IDP in miniOrange

Test Connection (SP-Initiated)

2. Configure ADFS as IDP in miniOrange

3. Configure your Application in miniOrange

Note:

If you have already configured your application in miniOrange you can skip the following steps.

4. Setup Multiple IDPs (Optional)

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