SAML IdP Best Current Practice

To register an Identity Provider in SWAMID you need to be a member of the Identity Federation SWAMID. For more information on how to become a member please go to Getting Started with SWAMID.


Most information under this section is in Swedish due to that SWAMID Identity Providers are institutions of the Swedish Higher Educational Sector.

In SWAMID multiple brands of Identity Provider software are used: the two most usual are Shibboleth Identity Provider and Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS). On this HowTo page we'll concentrate on these two. For now most of the information will be for Shibboleth, but we'll add more and more information on ADFS.

Metadata and policy considerations

Shibboleth Identity Providers

Base installation

Extended configuration

ADFS Identity Provider

Base installation

Extended configuration

Extended configuration of Identity Providers

Service Providers that need special integration considerations