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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: understanding-research-and-education-federation
- Join the InCommon Federation →
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- Working with User Data
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- adopt-saml-deployment-profile
Working with InCommon Metadata
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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
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Federation Manager 5.0 is comingMay 8, 2020 - A new version of Federation Manger with significantly improved metadata editing capabilities is coming in May. Check out what's new. InCommon updates Discovery ServiceApril 27, 2020 - The InCommon Discovery Service is getting an update! In addition to a new look, the updated service lists identity providers from international federations as well as InCommon's IDPs. What's new? InCommon to adopt remote metadata signing (April 1, 2020)COVID-19 call to action - We need your help (March 26, 2020) |
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Use the Federation Manager to upload
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InCommon Metadata Service
Retrieve IdP and SP metadata
Using metadata
Find and retrieve metadata for identity providers and service providersin InCommon and R&E federations around the world.
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Handling errors in federated SSO
Create a seamless federated SSO experience for your users. Manage those federated errors with care.
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Working with the Discovery Service
Working with the discovery serviceConfigure the discovery service to help your users easily find their home organizations during federated single sign on.
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Entity categories
Support trusted, global research and scholarly collaboration by adopting standard practices and specifications defined with entity categories.
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Best Practices and References
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Help the InCommon Federation help you get the most out of being InCommon. Learn and adopt Federation best practices.
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SAML and other technical references
Want to learn how things work under the hood? Check out the InCommon Federation technical references
- 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
Baseline Expectations - Improvements coming soon!
October 2023
The InCommon Federation operations team has been working throughout 2023 to introduce a series of enhancements to help participants maintain adherence with Baseline Expectations. We are happy to announce that the first set of these changes will soon appear in Federation Manager. Follow the link below to learn more about InCommon's ongoing effort to operationalize Baseline Expectations.
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Integrate Microsoft Azure AD with InCommon Federation
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Get federation-optimized, packaged, and free identity and access management software: InCommon Trusted Access PlatformApril 2023
Microsoft recently published an identity architecture and deployment guide on integrating Microsoft Azure AD with the InCommon Federation. If you are using Azure AD, be sure to check out this article to learn more:
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Ask the community
Find answers, support, and inspiration from US and international federated identity management community members
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GET NIH Ready
Follow this NIH-readiness resource page; get the latest on NIH's initiative to standardize and streamline federated access to NIH resources and what you need to to to meet its requirements.
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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
InCommon policies and practices
Participant agreements, practices and policies; privacy statements; terms and conditions. Find them on the InCommon website.
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