PowerDMS integration

[Tom Scavo]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Andrew Morgan <morgan at orst.edu> wrote:
> Does anyone have experience with PowerDMS?  Our Student Health office is
> looking at this software.  This comment from the vendor was forwarded to us:
>
> "We currently use Micorsoft Azure for authentication. In order for single
> sign on to work we need a WS-Federation Metadata URL or a WS-Federation
> Metadata Upload. It was mentioned that you are currently using Shibboleth
> with strictly works with a SAML communication. We do not currently support
> SAML. In my previous encounters with Shibboleth, our engineer suggested
> using ADFS (Or another third party) as a middle man between PowerDMS and
> Shibboleth. This will make the connection a WS-Federation and that is
> currently the only protocol we currently support."
>
> We're running Shibboleth IDP v3.2, which doesn't appear to support
> WS-Federation.  We do have an instance of ADFS (for Office365), but I don't
> know if we want to support the WS-Federation protocol in addition to CAS and
> SAML.

Apparently that is your only option if you want to interoperate with
PowerDMS. If you didn't already have an instance of AD FS deployed, I
would understand your hesitation, but since you do...

Just my two cents,

Tom