<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Yes we did work out SAML/Shibboleth integration with Bb Connect via “unsolicited” SSO.<div>(SP itself does not trigger the request; you gin up a URL for users to trigger the request.)</div><div><br></div><div>Here’s our URL for the “recipient portal” (there are two others):</div><div><a href="https://idp.alaska.edu/idp/profile/SAML2/Unsolicited/SSO?providerId=https%3A%2F%2Fsso.blackboardconnect.com%2FSAML%2FPortal%2FE0D069C2563D4D63A14CBB95D6845C25">https://idp.alaska.edu/idp/profile/SAML2/Unsolicited/SSO?providerId=https%3A%2F%2Fsso.blackboardconnect.com%2FSAML%2FPortal%2FE0D069C2563D4D63A14CBB95D6845C25</a></div><div><br></div><div>Note the presence of a magic key in the URL. As I recall, you generate that key in a Bb Connect admin portal,</div><div><br></div><div>To add insult, Bb insisted on their own names for attributes, so I had to craft custom attribute resolvers.</div><div><br></div><div>I’ll be glad to provide any other information or assistance. I have some documentation on our wiki</div><div><a href="https://iam.alaska.edu/shib/wiki/BbConnect">https://iam.alaska.edu/shib/wiki/BbConnect</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>David Bantz</div><div>UA IAM</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, at 06:56 , Liam Hoekenga <<a href="mailto:liamr@umich.edu">liamr@umich.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi David -<br><br>I found your message on the shib user's mailing list about integrating<br>with Blackboard Connect for their ECS. The University of Michigan is<br>in the same boat.<br><br>Did you ever get this working? Can you provide any details about your<br>implementation?<br>It uses unsolicted SSO, which I think means that there needs to be a<br>site external to Blackboard that initiates the login process. It<br>sends the user to IdP for login, and gets returned to blackboard?<br><br>-- <br>Liam Hoekenga<br>ITS Identity and Access Management<br>The University of Michigan<br><a href="mailto:liamr@umich.edu">liamr@umich.edu</a><br><br><br>On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:47 PM, David Bantz <dabantz@alaska.edu> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">My institution has contracted with Blackboard Connect ('BBC') for alert and emergency communications services.<br>BBC implements "IdP-initiated" or unsolicited SSO.<br>Have any of you successfully connected this service with your Shibboleth IdP for authN and willing to share how it's done?<br><br>David Bantz<br>UA OIT IAM<br>--<br>To unsubscribe from this list send an email to users-unsubscribe@shibboleth.net<br></blockquote></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>