Salesforce Org Architecture
The figure above shows a complex multiple org architecture (Hub-and-Spoke model). I’ll return to the drivers for multiple-org versus single org in a future post. For now let’s consider some interesting...
View ArticleMixed Authentication Schemes
In certain cases it may be desirable to have some users authenticate in the standard Salesforce manner, whilst another user population authenticates via single sign-on (SSO). This mixed authentication...
View ArticleSalesforce SSO with ADFS 2.0
In this post I’ll share some recent practical experiences implementing Federated SSO between Salesforce and Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 (ADFS 2.0 for brevity). For detailed configuration...
View ArticleMulti-Provider Single Sign-On
The Summer ’13 release brought an interesting new feature in the area of identity management – Multi-Provider Single Sign-On. The general principle being (to my initial reading of the release notes)...
View ArticleSalesforce Identity Connect
Over the recent years I’ve spent focused on the Salesforce architecture domain I’ve designed and implemented federated single sign-on (SSO) schemes many times (and the proprietary Delegated...
View ArticleSalesforce OpenID Connect
In addition to the proprietary Authentication Provider types (Facebook, Janrain, Salesforce) Winter ’14 (v29.0) added support for the OpenID Connect protocol, enabling off-platform authentication via...
View ArticleSalesforce Environment Hub
Environment Hub was announced back in August 2012 and was initially made available as a Pilot feature of the Winter ’13 release. This post follows up (some 2 years later) on my initial interest in...
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Salesforce Identity Architecture
This diagram provides a high-level overview of Salesforce Identity Architecture concepts and platform capabilities. This is the fifth and final part of a Salesforce Architecture reference series...
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