How to setup SSO using SAML2 / ADFS

About this article

This article describes how an organization can set up SSO on ADFS utilising SAML2 protocol by adding a new relying party trust to the Federation Service. Please find all information below needed to proceed with the setup. Sections in this article:

• Client IT tasks
• Templafy tasks
• Client IT SAML2 setup guide
• ADFS claim setup
• ADFS example settings - Windows Server 2012 R2

Prerequisites

Client IT tasks

• Set up a relying party in ADFS using Templafy metadata
• Download Templafy metadata 
• Provide client metadata to Templafy (usually done via a download link to metadata.xml file)
• Setup extended claims rules (optional)
• Link to extended claims rules

Templafy tasks

Add following to the Templafy configuration:

• Client signing certificate
• SSO URL
• EntityID

Client IT SAML2 setup guide

Below is the necessary information to setup Templafy as a relying party in your ADFS:

Manual Setup

If you wish to create the Relying party by using the AD FS Management to manually configure the settings, perform the following procedure on a federation server: Create a relying party trust 

Using Powershell

The Add-AdfsRelyingPartyTrust cmdlet adds a new relying party trust to the Federation Service. You can specify a relying party trust manually, or you can provide a federation metadata document to bootstrap initial configuration. 

 Add-ADFSRelyingPartyTrust -Name "Templafy" -MetadataURL "Paste Metadata URL from the above table"

ADFS claim setup

ADFS Claim Setup with all Membership Groups as claims. This will send all ADFS-supported claims to Templafy and can safely be copy/paste to a Custom Claim Rule.

c:[Type == "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2008/06/identity/claims/windowsaccountname", Issuer == "AD AUTHORITY"]
=> issue(store = "Active Directory", types = ("http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/nameidentifier", "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/upn", "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/emailaddress", "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/givenname", "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/surname", "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/postalcode", "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/stateorprovince", "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/country", "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/mobilephone", "http://schemas.templafy.com/2016/06/identity/claims/department", "http://schemas.templafy.com/2016/06/identity/claims/city", "http://schemas.templafy.com/2016/06/identity/claims/jobtitle", "http://schemas.templafy.com/2016/06/identity/claims/facsimilenumber", "http://schemas.templafy.com/2016/06/identity/claims/phonenumber", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2008/06/identity/claims/role"), query = ";mail,userPrincipalName,mail,givenName,sn,postalCode,st,co,mobile,department,l,title,facsimileTelephoneNumber,telephoneNumber,tokenGroups;{0}", param = c.Value);

ADFS example settings - Windows Server 2012 R2

Here are examples of a Windows Server 2012 with Templafy configured as a Relying Party Trust.

• Federation Service properties
  
  

• Trust Relationships - Monitoring
  
  

• Trust Relationships - Identifiers
  
  

• Trust Relationships - Encryption
  
  

• Trust Relationships - Signature
  
  

• Trust Relationships - Endpoints
  
  

• Trust Relationships - Advanced / Hash algorithm
  
  

• Trust Relationships - Claim Rules
  
  

• Trust Relationships - Basic Claim Rules (LDAP attribute)
  
  

• Trust Relationships - Extended Claim Rules (Custom Rule Language)
  
  
• OBS! See linked article for full example of Extended Claim Rules: Supported claims and claim rules
  
  

• Trust Relationships - Issuance Authorization Rules
  
  

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