Setting Up SSO with Google Apps

1. In the Navigation Sidebar of the EmpowerID Web interface, expand Applications and click Manage Applications.
2. From the Actions pane, click the Create Application action.
   
   
   
   This opens the Application Details form, which contains various tabs and fields for creating the application.
   
   
   
   
3. From the General tab of the Application Details form, do the following:
   1. Enter a name, display name and description for the application in the Name, Display Name and Description fields.
   2. In the Icon field, enter ~Images/AppLogos/Google.png to use the Google image provided by EmpowerID. This image represents Google in the Personal Applications page for users who have access.
   3. Set Allow Access Requests to specify whether the application appears in the IT Shop, allowing users to request or claim an account in the application.
   4. Set Allow Claim Account to specify whether users can claim their accounts and gain instant access after passing the requisite identity proofs.
   5. Set SSO Enabled to specify whether the application is an SSO app. Select this.
   6. Set Requires Account For SSO to specify whether users must have an account in the application for SSO. Select this.
   7. Set Allow Request Account and Allow Access Requests to allow users to request an account in the application.
   8. Set Login Is Email Address to specify whether the login for the application is an email address. This setting is needed to pass identity assertion to the application when logging in from EmpowerID.
   9. Set Make me the Application Owner to manage the application and approve or deny access requests.
   10. Set Configure Advanced Claim and Request Account Options and provide advanced configuration information if you have custom pages and workflows configured in EmpowerID that process access requests and manage accounts linked to the application's EmpowerID account directory.
4. Click the Single Sign-On tab and do the following:
   1. Select SAML from the Single Sign-On Connection Type drop-down and then select Create a New SAML Connection.
      
      
      
      
   2. In the SAML Connection Information section that appears, select Google SSO Connection Settings from the SAML Application Template drop-down. This populates the SAML Connection Information section with the common SSO settings for Google Apps provided by the template.
   3. In the Display Name field of the SAML Connection Information section, type the name for the Google Apps SSO Connection that you want to appear to users in EmpowerID. By default EmpowerID populates the value of this field with the name you gave to the application.
   4. Select the certificate to sign the SAML assertions sent to Google from the Certificate drop-down.
   5. Edit the value of the Assertion Consumer URL field, replacing " yourdomain.com " with the name of your Google Apps domain.
      
      
      
      
5. Click the Users tab and do one of the following:

   • If you have not connected EmpowerID to your enterprise Google Apps account - Tick Create a New Account Directory or select Google from the Select existing Account Directory drop-down. If you select Create a New Account Directory, EmpowerID creates a special type of "tracking-only" account store, named after the application, that is internal to EmpowerID. A tracking-only account store account exists as a container within EmpowerID for storing user and group records apart from those located in the actual directory Google maintains for your Google Apps. If you select Google, EmpowerID uses the Google tracking-only account store that is configured out-of-the-box.
     
     

     Although you have the option to create a tracking-only account store for Google Apps, the best practice is to connect EmpowerID to Google so you can inventory and synchronize the user data in your Google Apps account with EmpowerID. This lets you create new Google accounts in EmpowerID and have them appear in Google and vice-versa. For more information, see Connecting to Google Apps.

   • If you have connected EmpowerID to your enterprise Google Apps account - Select the account store for your Google Apps from the Select existing Account Directory drop-down. EmpowerID uses this directory to map your Google Apps users with their corresponding EmpowerID Persons. Please note that you must add this account store to EmpowerID before it appears in the drop-down.
     
     
6. Click Add to Cart, click the My Cart link, and in the Cart dialog that appears, enter a reason for creating the application and click Submit.
7. After EmpowerID creates the application, in the Navigation Sidebar, expand Admin, then Applications and Directories, then SSO Connections, and click SAML.
8. From the SAML Connections tab of the SAML SSO Connections management page, search for the Google SAML Connection you just created.
9. From the SAML Connections grid, click the Display Name link.
   
   
   
   
10. In the View One page for the application that appears, copy the User Entered URL. This URL will need to be added to Google when you register EmpowerID there.
    
    

Now that you have created the application in EmpowerID, the next step is to set up SSO with EmpowerID in Google. For specifics, see Google's instructions at https://console.developers.google.com.