Introduction

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Both the Relying Party (RP) and IDP/STS (Security Token Service) support publishing metadata information in a standardized metadata document, for both the WS-Federation and SAML SSO protocols. The metadata document provides an easier way to configure the RP in the IDP/STS or to configure the IDP/STS in the RP.

If WS-Federation is configured then the Federation Metadata document is created as defined here. If SAML-SSO is configured, then the document that is published is defined in the following spec.The metadata document provides an easier way to configure the RP in the

IDP/STS

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IDP/STS

The metadata document of the IDP/STS can be used to resolve IDP/STS configuration information at runtime or during deployment time.

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The SAML SSO metadata document defines the IDPSSODescriptor describes the capabilities of the IDP/STS:

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It is possible to configure the metadata URL for a SAML SSO relying party application by specifying the 'metadataURI' configuration option. By default, the metadata for the Relying Party for WS-Federation SAML SSO is published at the following URL

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The SAML SSO metadata document defines the SPSSODescriptor describes the capabilities of the Relying Party:

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