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Does ADFS 2.0 supports the SAML 1.1 protocol and Web SSO profiles?

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Does ADFS 2.0 supports the SAML 1.1 protocol and Web SSO profiles as mentionend in this Wikipedia article or are only SAML 1.1 tokens supported?

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spa Avatar asked Mar 22 '10 13:03

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According to my research ADFS 2.0 supports WS-Federation and the SAML 2.0 protocol (SAML-P). SAML 1.1 is only supported as a token format. This makes sense as WS-Federation supports various token formats including SAML 2.0 and SAML 1.1. So there is SAML 1.1 support because of the token issue...

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spa Avatar answered Sep 19 '22 18:09

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