Happenings

• Join the NIH Office hour to discuss MFA and other requirements (March 24, 2021)
• Learn how to meet Baseline Expectations 2 (March 24, 2021)
• SP Onboarding Guide (and more) is here. (February 24, 2021)

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InCommon makes possible trustworthy academic collaboration that reaches far beyond what a single organization can do on its own, through identity and access management technologies and services that are integrated across the globe. Learn how you can participate:

• READ THIS FIRST: thingsunderstanding-toresearch-considerand-wheneducation-joining-incommonfederation
• Why Join the InCommon Federation? →Join the InCommon Federation →
• get-started-after-joining-incommon
• Onboarding Services in the InCommon Federation
• -going-with-incommon-federation
• Working with User Data
• meet-baseline-expectations
• adopt-saml-deployment-profile

Federation News 

April 8, 2024: 2024-incommon-federation-services-roadmap-announcement

InCommon shares its 2024 Federation service enhancements roadmap. 

Apr 1, 2024: Consultation for REFEDS Access Entity Categories Deployment Guidance

Community consultation for TAC's Deployment Guidance for REFEDS Access Entity Categories begins. 

News Archive

Working with User Data

• Working with user data

Working with InCommon Metadata

Publish Metadata

Support Research &  Scholarship (R&S)

Do your part to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic: configure your identity provider to support the REFEDS Research and Scholarship category to rapidly connect your researchers and scientists with international collaborations

• What is REFEDS R&S?
• What do I need to do to support R&S?
• Research resources: apply for R&S category
• R&S Adoption Dashboard

Working with InCommon Metadata

Use the Federation Manager to upload and publish your metadata to the InCommon Federation:

• Manage metadata with the Federation Manager
• Sign into Federation Manager →

Retrieve IdP and SP metadata in InCommon and R&E federations around the world.Metadata:

• Using the InCommon Metadata Service
• Download InCommon metadata

Working with InCommon Wayfinder

• explanation-what-is-incommon-wayfinder
• how-to-configure-service-to-use-wayfinder
• explanation-wayfinder-roadmap

Meet Baseline Expectations 

• be2-implementation-guide-intro
• be2-faq
• Beyond BE2: Operationalizing Baseline Expectations

Enable Federated Research Access

• get-nih-ready
• Support Research & Scholarship category

Federation

Practices and References

Help the InCommon Federation help you get the most out of being InCommon. Learn and adopt Federation best practices.

• Working with User Data
• meet-baseline-expectations
• adopt-saml-deployment-profile
• Declare Qualification and Support with Entity Categories
• Understand SAML Metadata and Its Use in InCommon
• Handle Federated SSO Errors with Error Handling Service  
• Federation Best Practices
• Index of Technical References
• InCommon Policies and  Practices
• Get Software: InCommon Trusted Access Platform
• Microsoft Azure AD Documentation - University multilateral federation solutions

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Working with the Discovery Service

Configure the discovery service to help your users easily find their home organizations during federated single sign on.

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