Aha! Ideas | Portal SSO | Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)

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• In ADFS

• In Aha!

• Troubleshooting

• Share your SSO configuration between portals (Advanced plan)

• Troubleshooting

In ADFS

1. In Server Manager, click Tools AD FS Management.

2. Click Add Relying Party Trust under Actions. This will open the Add Relying Party Trust Wizard.

3. In the Welcome step, click Claims aware, then Start.

4. In the Select Data Source step, choose Import data about the relying party, then enter your Aha! account URL in the Federation metadata address field. You can copy the URL from the Aha! ideas portal SSO settings by navigating to Users SSO.

   The metadata URL will only work once SAML authentication is enabled in your Aha! account.

5. In the Specify Display Name step, name your relying party (e.g. "Aha!").

6. The Configure Certificate step is optional. Click Next.

7. The Configure URL step is optional. Click Next.

8. In the Configure Identifiers step, enter your Aha! account URL. You can copy the URL from the Aha! ideas portal SSO settings by navigating to Users SSO.

9. In the Choose Access Control Policy step, choose to Permit everyone.

10. Review your settings on the Ready to Add Trust step, then click Next.

11. On the Finish step, click Close. This will open the Edit Claim Rules modal.

12. On the Issuance Transform Rules tab, click Add Rule....

13. Select the Send LDAP Attributes as Claims template.

14. Click Next. Name your rule, select Active Directory as the attribute store, and then add the following mappings:

    LDAP Attribute	Outgoing Claim Type
    NameID	NameID
    Given-Name	Given Name
    Surname	Surname

    Each user in your Aha! account needs to have a unique NameID. This value must be unique — an email addresses cannot be used as a NameID. This ensures that any changes to a user's email address can be reflected in your Aha! account.

15. Click OK.

16. On the Issuance Transform Rules tab, click Add Rule... again.

17. Select the Transform an Incoming Claim template, then click Next.

18. Name the rule and make the following selections:

    1. Incoming claim type: NameID

    2. Outgoing claim type: NameID

    3. Outgoing name ID format: Email

    4. Pass through all claim values

19. Click OK.

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In Aha!

1. Navigate to Settings ⚙️ Account Ideas Ideas portals or Ideas Overview. You will need to be an administrator with customizations permissions to configure an ideas portal.

   1. From your account settings, click the name of the ideas portal you wish to edit.

   2. From Ideas Overview, click the pencil icon by the name of the ideas portal you wish to edit.

2. Once you have your portal settings open, navigate to the Users tab, and the SSO section.

3. Select SAML 2.0 from the Identify Provider dropdown. The SAML 2.0 configuration will display.

4. Name your configuration.

5. For the Metadata URL, enter the URL to the metadata xml listed in AD FS 2.0 console, e.g. https://adfs.<company>.com/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml.

6. Enter the remaining fields following the SAML 2.0 configuration instructions.

7. Click Enable SSO to complete the configuration.

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