Clarify SP

[Cantor, Scott]

>     Yes, this is all pretty new to me.  My background is in Unix, since all of this
> seems to be AD related it's been outside of my sphere.  But now I need to
> know it.

Not really AD related, no. ADFS is an add-on to AD that does federation protocols, Shibboleth is architected differently but also more agnostic about what it connects to.

>     Right now we have a goal to get Microsoft web store integrated with our
> Shibboleth IDP.  The documentation seems to assume that I know things that
> apparently I don't.  Testshib.org tells us our IDP is working, but we're at a lost
> how to get MS Web Store accessing it.

If you're an InCommon member, then you basically have to proceed as:

- Is vendor a member?
- Is vendor's metadata registered with InCommon?

If the answer is no to either, you have to convince them to do it, or more likely manage the trust relationship yourself.

If you're not an InCommon member, then you're in the vast wasteland of the enterprise where doing all this manually makes sense to people. Our software isn't geared toward that manual process being as friendly as it is in software that pretty much starts and ends with manual.

-- Scott