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Jochen Nickel
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Jochen Nickel

Jochen Nickel is a Cloud, Identity and Access Management Solution Architect with a clear focus and in-depth technical knowledge of Identity and Access Management. He is currently working for inovit GmbH in Switzerland leading and executing projects in the field of Identity and Access Management including Data Classification and Information protection. Jochen is focused on Microsoft Technologies, especially in the Enterprise Mobility + Security Suite, Office 365 and Azure. He is an established speaker at many technology conferences like Azure Bootcamps, TrustInTech Meetups or the Experts Live Switzerland and Europe.
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Azure AD authentication deployments


In this section, we will build applications for our users and work through the different authentication mechanisms provided by Azure AD. All the configurations we do in this section will be done with global administrator rights and on the Azure portal, https://portal.azure.com. We will start with Salesforce configuration:

  1. Launch the Azure Active Directory blade and click Enterprise applications.
  2. Under All applications, click New application:

New application creation context

  1. Type Salesforce in the search field:

Salesforce enablement

  1. Under Single sing-on, change to SAML authentication:

Choosing SAML as the authentication method

  1. Go to the SAML Signing Certificatesection and click Download on Certificate (RAW):

Downloading the signing certificate

  1. Now, log in to your Salesforce account and navigate to Identity | Single Sign-On Settings.
  2. Edit the SAML settings and click SAML Enabled:

Configuration of SAML in Salesforce

  1. Next, we will create new SAML Single Sign-On Settings...
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Jochen Nickel

Jochen Nickel is a Cloud, Identity and Access Management Solution Architect with a clear focus and in-depth technical knowledge of Identity and Access Management. He is currently working for inovit GmbH in Switzerland leading and executing projects in the field of Identity and Access Management including Data Classification and Information protection. Jochen is focused on Microsoft Technologies, especially in the Enterprise Mobility + Security Suite, Office 365 and Azure. He is an established speaker at many technology conferences like Azure Bootcamps, TrustInTech Meetups or the Experts Live Switzerland and Europe.
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