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MiLK_MaN
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Dec 15, 2016

Sharepoint Online persistent SSO with APM SAML

Hi all,   We have an APM configuration working successfully with SAML SSO to Office365.   What we'd like to do now is work out whether we can manipulate the timeout settings for users hitting S...
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Michael_Koyfma1
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Dec 16, 2016

So, I looked at the article and further PSSO definition, and I don't quite fully understand exactly how it works yet - but I am guessing that if ADFS sets PSSO cookie and sends that claim to Azure AD, then Azure AD will be sending persistent cookies for Sharepoint Online to the browser. Do you know if that is the case?

 

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MiLK_MaN
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Dec 19, 2016

No idea. We were on a call with Microsoft, but unfortunately they only knew how to configure the ADFS portion and had no idea what transpires at a protocol level.

 

One of my colleagues did find this information which looks promising though:

 

' target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://schemas.microsoft.com/2014/03/psso">; true

 

Dug around looking to convert MS Claims to SAML; found a bunch of stuff but this was most interesting.

 

https://github.com/AzureAD/azure-activedirectory-library-for-ruby/blob/master/spec/fixtures/wstrust/too_many_security_tokens.xml

 

The customer is not keen for us to be experimenting in their environment, so would be great to get some information whether this would be the solution to their issue and whether anything needs to be done on the Azure side of things.