We currently use PingFederate for all SSO SAML connections. I like it, it 
works really well, but we are paying for it. I'd like to begin the process 
of investigating AD FS as a possible replacement. I've never actually used 
AD FS, but have read the documentation. My question is in regards to 
directory repositories for authentication. Primarily we use LDAP 
authentication for access to SaaS applications. Going through IBM WebSeal 
for the authentication, which then passes it to PingFederate for the 
creation of the assertion, using LDAP properties to populate the 
SAML_Subject. Can you do this with AD FS? Can the front end authentication 
be LDAP, not AD? Since the IdP system isn't doing the authentication 
anyway, I don't think it should matter.  Anyone else doing something 
similar with it? 

Thanks


Christopher Bodnar 
Enterprise Architect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise 
Architecture and Engineering Services 
Tel 610-807-6459 
3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 
[email protected] 




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