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SAML Authentication in AEM Using Microsoft Azure Active Directory by Deepak Jain

Abstract

Introduction
SSO has become a new normal through which a user can authenticate with multiple enterprise applications without having to login to each application individually. SAML has been accepted world-wide as one of the most secure ways of implementing enterprise SSO.
SAML can be used to perform SSO authentication and authorisation using Active Directory, OKTA etc. systems.

Brief about AEM and SAML
Adobe Experience Manager has inbuilt support to use SAML based authentication mechanism. It has the option of creating users in it, if required, and assigning them to a group for permissions related stuff after receiving the details from the “App Federation Metadata URL”.

Adobe Solution:
AEM 6.2–6.5

Installation:
JDK 1.8, AEM 6.2–6.5 author/publish/both

Azure Prerequisites:
Azure AD SAML Signing Certificate, Azure AD Login URL, Azure AD Logout URL, Azure AD Identifier (Entity ID), App Federation Metadata URL

AEM Prerequisites:
AEM enabled over SSL using TLS1.1 or above

Note:
We are enabling SAML based SSO authentication on We Retail website.

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