Support for Federated Authentication in SharePoint

SharePoint Integration supports Federated authentication.

This topic provides an example when authenticating to SharePoint from AgilePoint Envision, but this feature is also available when authenticating from the SharePoint AgileConnector.



Field Definitions

Field Name Definition
Claims Authentication
Definition:
Specifies whether to use Claims authentication, and what type of Claims authentication, to use to connect to SharePoint.
Allowed Values:
If this option is selected, the following types of Claims Authentication are available:
  • Form Based Authentication - Activates Forms based authentication using a custom membership provider to connect to an on-premises SharePoint environment.
  • Office 365 - Activates Claims authentication to connect to SharePoint in an Office 365 environment. This option can be used side-by-side with on-premises SharePoint.
  • Federated Authentication - Activates Federated authentication to connect to SharePoint -- for example, ADFS.
    Note: Out of the box, AgilePoint supports ADFS authentication. If you want to use your own authentication provider, see Federated Authentication Example.
Default Value:
Deselected

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