Workplace by Facebook cloud application

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Using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), your users can utilise their Google Cloud credentials to sign in to enterprise-cloud applications.

Gear up SSO via SAML for Workplace past Facebook

Hither'south how to ready single sign-on (SSO) via SAML for the Workplace past Facebook application.

Step 1: Get Google identity provider (IdP) information

  2. From the Admin console Home page, get to Apps and then Web and mobile apps.

  3. Click Add app and then Search for apps.

  4. Enter Workplace past Facebook in the search field.
  5. In the search results, hover over the Workplace by Facebook SAML app and click Select.
  6. On the Google Identity Provider details page:
    • Copy and salve the SSO URL and Entity ID.
    • Download the Certificate.

Leave the Admin console open up, you'll proceed with the configuration wizard after performing the next step in Workplace.

Step 2: Prepare Workplace past Facebook every bit a SAML 2.0 service provider (SP)

  1. In a new browser tab, sign into your Workplace by Facebook awarding as an administrator.
  2. Go to Admin Panel and then Security and then Authentication.
  3. Click the SAML SSO checkbox.
  4. Click Add together new SSO Provider.
  5. Enter the following data you copied from the Admin panel in Pace 1 above:
    • SAML URL:  SSO URL.
    • SAML Issuer ID:  Entity ID.
    • SAML Document: Open the Google Ten.509 document you downloaded in Stride 1 in a text editor, copy the unabridged contents of the file, and paste information technology into the field.
  6. Copy the Audition URL and ACS URL. You'll need these URLs when you lot finish configuration in the Admin panel in the side by side pace.

Exit Workplace by Facebook open up, you'll return here to examination your SSO setup after finishing configuration in the Admin console.

Footstep iii: Finish SSO configuration in Admin console

  1. Render to the Admin console browser tab.
  2. On the Google Identity Provider details folio, clickContinue.
  3. On the Service provider details folio, enter the following values:
    • ACS URL:  the ACS URL you lot copied from Workplace.
    • Entity ID:  the Audience URL yous copied from Workplace.
    • Start URL:  the root URL section of the ACS URL copied from Workplace.Annotation: The root URL is the section between the "://" and the next slash, for instance {yoursubdomain}.facebook.com.
  4. Click Continue.

  5. (Optional) On the Attribute Mapping folio, map Google directory attributes to corresponding application attributes:

    1. Click Add Mapping.
    2. Click the Select field carte and select a Google directory attribute.
    3. Enter the corresponding awarding attribute under App attributes.

  6. (Optional) If you want to send a user's group membership data in the SAML response, enter the group names that are relevant for this app in the Group membership field.

    This feature is currently in beta and not yet available to all customers.

    1. Under Google groups, click in the Search for a group entry field.
    2. Type one or more letters of the group name.
    3. Choose the group name from the dropdown list.
    4. Add boosted groups as needed (total groups cannot exceed 75).
    5. Nether App attribute, enter the service provider'due south corresponding groups attribute proper noun.

    Annotation: Regardless of how many group names you enter, the SAML response will simply include groups that a user is a member of (directly or indirectly). For more data, see About group membership mapping.

  7. On the Attribute mapping page, clickFinish.

Step four: Enable the Workplace by Facebook app

  2. From the Admin panel Dwelling house page, go to Apps and then Spider web and mobile apps.

  3. SelectWorkplace past Facebook.

  4. ClickUser access.

  5. To turn on or off a service for everyone in your organization, clickOn for everyone orOff for anybody, and then clickRelieve.

  6. (Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:

    1. At the left, select the organizational unit.
    2. To alter the Service status, selectOn orOff.
    3. Choose one:
      • If the Service condition is ready toInherited and you want to keep the updated setting, fifty-fifty if the parent setting changes, click Override.
      • If the Service status is set toOverridden, either click Inherit to revert to the same setting equally its parent, or clickSave to go along the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.
        Annotation: Acquire more than about organizational structure.

  7. (Optional) Turn on the service for a group of users.
    Use access groups to turn on a service for specific users within or beyond your organizational units. Larn more

  8. Ensure that your Workplace past Facebook user account email IDs match those in your Google domain.

Step 5: Verify that the SSO is working

Workplace by Facebook supports both Identity Provider (IdP) initiated and Service Provider (SP) initiated SSO. Follow these steps to verify SSO in either manner:

IdP-initiated

  2. From the Admin console Home page, go to Apps and then Spider web and mobile apps.

  3. SelectWorkplace by Facebook.
  4. At the top left, click Examination SAML login.

    Workplace by Facebook should open in a dissever tab. If information technology doesn't, employ the information in the resulting SAML error letters to update your IdP and SP settings as needed, then retest SAML login.

SP-initiated

  1. Go back to the Workplace by Facebook browser window.
  2. On the SSO settings page, click the light-green Test SSO button.
  3. Sign in with the same email address that's currently signed in to Workplace.
  4. After a successful test, save your changes.

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