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SCIM 101

SCIM, or the System for Cross-Domain Identity Management, is a normalized set of HTTP-based protocols and schemas utilized to provision, manage, and deprovision users between disparate service providers. Put another way, SCIM is designed to enable many third-party services to share profile details, enabling a more feature-rich SSO experience. The concepts of Modern Authentication enable …

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An Overview of Modern Authentication using OAuth 2.0 and OIDC

Modern Authentication is typically not a single solution, but a set of modern, universally accepted standards and protocols that identify industry best practices. These standards include protocols such as Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Web Services Federation (WS-Federation or WS-Fed), OAuth 2.0, or Open ID Connect (OIDC). These protocols and standards have replaced legacy authentication …

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Ivanti UWM Management Center Security Sandboxing

In the vast majority of UWM deployments, the default security settings are rarely changed beyond adding a single, global administrative group. This is usually because there is only a small core team managing the product, so sandboxing peoples’ capabilities is not usually required. However maybe there is a contractor assisting with a larger effort. Or …

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Ivanti Environment Manager and Automation

If you’re familiar with Ivanti’s Environment Manager Policy product, you’re probably familiar with its best uses – acting as the user or system inside the local session, on the local endpoint. It excels at conditionally modifying and configuring the user’s present session, within the confines of the machine. What it has never been fantastic at …

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How To: Okta & Citrix uniform SAML based SSO user experience

How to use Okta, Citrix Gateway, and Workspace app for a uniform SAML based single sign-on user experience By: Jason Samuel Several months ago I posted on Twitter how you can use on-premises or cloud IaaS hosted Citrix Gateway/NetScaler Gateway, Workspace app/Receiver, and Okta as your identity provider (IdP) with SAML 2.0 authentication for full …

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Fixing the Microsoft Azure AD Connect User Name or Password is Incorrect Error

I was setting up a new Microsoft Azure AD subscription for someone and came across this issue. Whenever I tried to sign into Azure AD Connect with a Global Administrator account it kept saying the below error message even though I verified the user ID and password were correct: The user name or password is …

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