The IT Melting Pot!

Another great blog post by Andrew! Great job!

While working with a customer recently on a sharefile implementation, I set about creating a SAML / Active Directory single sign on deployment. Configuring ADFS and SAML were complete unknowns to me so I set about documenting the process end to end for future reference.

The end result of this activity will allow you to login to sharefile using a native account (think Guest) or an active directory account (think internal user).

What you will need in order to follow this guide:

• An enterprise Sharefile account.
• A local domain.
• An active directory service account. (standard user rights are fine)
• A windows 2012 server to host ADFS (windows 2008 r2 is fine, but you’ll need to install ADFS 2.0 manually).
• This windows server must be accessible via https (443) from the internet. (Netscaler SSL works fine).
• An external trusted certificate for the web server hosting saml (e.g. adfs.yourdomain.com). For this walk through, I’ll assume you have already done this. *
• A copy of the Sharefile User Management Tool.
• About 2-3 hours spare.

* for this, generate a server certificate and import it into the local machines personal certificates.

Steps:

• Installing Active Directory Federated Services.
• Configuring Federated Services.
• Configuring Sharefile for SAML.
• Syncing Active Directory users with Sharefile.
• Testing the saml login….

Continue reading here!

//Richard