External Providers

For each external identity provider used by your deployment, you must provide access to the federation metadata document.

The preferred method is to provide the URL to the federation metadata XML file. This method ensures ShareBase has access to the latest metadata. For example:

https://sso.example.com/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml

If you cannot provide URL-based access to the federation metadata, then you can export the federation metadata as an XML file to share with your solution provider. This method is not preferred, because an updated XML file will have to be re-imported by your solution provider anytime the metadata changes.