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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 →
• get-going-with-incommon-federation
• Working with User Data
• meet-baseline-expectations
• adopt-saml-deployment-profile

Federation News 

January 8, 2025: news-fm-migrates-to-federated-sso

Sept 26, 2024: legacy-metadata-retirement-announcement

Migrate to the MDQ-based InCommon Metadata service by January 2025.

July 10, 2024: fm-migration-start-announcement

Federated access for Site Administrators to Federation Manager is now available.

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

InCommon shares its 2024 Federation service enhancements roadmap. 

News Archive

Working with InCommon Wayfinder

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

Working with User Data

• Working with user data

Working with InCommon Metadata

Publish Metadata:

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

Retrieve Metadata:

• Using the InCommon Metadata Service
• Download InCommon metadata

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.

• 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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