ArcGIS Single Sign-On SSO
miniOrange provides secure access to ArcGIS for enterprises and full control over access to the application. Single Sign On (SSO) into ArcGIS with one set of login credentials.
miniOrange and ArcGIS Single Sign-On (SSO) integration supports the following features:
- SP Initiated Single Sign-On (SSO)
- IdP Initiated Single Sign-On (SSO)
Connect with External Source of Users
miniOrange provides user authentication from various external sources, which can be Directories (like ADFS, Microsoft Active Directory, Azure AD, OpenLDAP, Google, AWS Cognito etc), Identity Providers (like Shibboleth, Ping, Okta, OneLogin, KeyCloak), Databases (like MySQL, Maria DB, PostgreSQL) and many more.
Follow the Step-by-Step Guide given below for ArcGIS Single Sign-On (SSO)
1. Configure ArcGIS in miniOrange
- Login into miniOrange Admin Console.
- Go to Apps and click on Add Application button.

- In Choose Application Type click on Create App button in SAML/WS-FED application type.

- Search for ArcGIS in the list, if you don't find ArcGIS in the list then, search for custom and you can set up your application via Custom SAML App.

- Enter the SP Entity ID or Issuer as <org name>.maps.arcgis.com..
- Enter the ACS URL as https://<org name>.maps.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/oauth2/saml/signin.

- Click Next, now in the Attribute Mapping configure attributes according to your choice.

- Click on the Save button.
- Otherwise, click on Import SP metadata to import data about the relying party published online or on a local network. This option uses the URL metadata of your ArcGIS Online organization. The URL is usually in the format : https://<url_key_for_org>.maps.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/portals/self/sp/metadata?token=<token>.
- Your application is saved successfully. Now click on the Select button against your newly created application. Go to Metadata.

- On the Metadata page -
1. If you want to use miniOrange as User Store i.e., your user identities will be stored in miniOrange then download the metadata file under the heading 'INFORMATION REQUIRED TO SET MINIORANGE AS IDP'.
2. If you want to authenticate your users via any external Identity Provider like Active Directory, Okta, OneLogin, Google, Apple ID, etc then download the Metadata file under the heading 'INFORMATION REQUIRED TO AUTHENTICATE VIA EXTERNAL IDPS.

- Keep SAML Login URL , SAML Logout URL and click on the Download Certificate button to download certificate which you will require in Step 3.
2. Configure SSO in ArcGIS Admin Account
- Verify that you are signed in as an administrator of your organization. At the top of the site, click Organization and click the Settings tab.
- Click Security on the left side of the page.
- In the Logins section, under SAML login, click the Setup SAML login button, and select the Set identity provider option. On the Specify properties page, type your organization's name. When users access the portal website, this text displays as part of the SAML sign-in option.
- Choose Automatically or Upon invitation from an administrator to specify how users can join the organization. Selecting the first option allows users to sign in to the organization with their SAML login without any intervention from an administrator. Their account is registered with the organization automatically the first time they sign in. The second option requires the administrator to register the necessary accounts with the organization using a command-line utility or sample Python script. Once the accounts have been registered, users can sign in to the organization.
- Provide metadata information for the IDP. Download or obtain a copy of the metadata file from miniOrange and upload the file to Portal for ArcGIS using the File option.
- Configure Advanced Settings as applicable :
Enable signed request | Enable this option to have Portal for ArcGIS sign the SAML authentication request sent to miniOrange. |
Propagate logout to Identity Provider | Enable this option to have Portal for ArcGIS use a logout URL to sign out the user from miniOrange. Enter the URL to use in the Logout URL setting. If the IDP requires the logout URL to be signed, Enable signed request needs to be turned on. |
Update profiles on sign-in | Enable this option to have ArcGIS Enterprise update users' givenName and email address attributes if they have changed since they last signed in. |
Enable SAML based group membership | Enable this option to allow organization members to link specified SAML-based enterprise groups to ArcGIS Enterprise groups during the group creation process. |
Logout URL | The IDP URL to use to sign out the currently signed-in user. |
Entity ID | Update this value to use a new entity ID to uniquely identify your portal to miniOrange. |
- When finished, click Save.
- Click Download service provider metadata to download the portal's metadata file. Information in this file will be used to register the portal as the trusted service provider with miniOrange.
3. Test SSO Configuration
Test SSO login to your ArcGIS account with miniOrange IdP:
4. Configure Your User Directory (Optional)
miniOrange provides user authentication from various external sources, which can be Directories (like ADFS, Microsoft Active Directory, Azure AD, OpenLDAP, Google, AWS Cognito etc), Identity Providers (like Okta, Shibboleth, Ping, OneLogin, KeyCloak), Databases (like MySQL, Maria DB, PostgreSQL) and many more. You can configure your existing directory/user store or add users in miniOrange.
- Click on User Stores >> Add User Store in the left menu of the dashboard.

- Select User Store type as AD/LDAP.

- STORE LDAP CONFIGURATION IN MINIORANGE: Choose this option if you want to keep your configuration in miniOrange. If active directory is behind a firewall, you will need to open the firewall to allow incoming requests to your AD.
- STORE LDAP CONFIGURATION ON PREMISE: Choose this option if you want to keep your configuration in your premise and only allow access to AD inside premises. You will have to download and install miniOrange gateway in your premise.

- Enter LDAP Display Name and LDAP Identifier name.
- Select Directory Type as Active Directory.
- Enter the LDAP Server URL or IP Address against LDAP Server URL field.
- Click on Test Connection button to verify if you have made a successful connection with your LDAP server.

- In Active Directory, go to the properties of user containers/OU's and search for Distinguished Name attribute.

- Enter the valid Bind account Password.
- Click on Test Bind Account Credentials button to verify your LDAP Bind credentials for LDAP connection.

- Search Base is the location in the directory where the search for a user begins. You will get this from the same place you got your Distinguished name.

- Select a suitable Search filter from the drop down menu. To use custom Search Filter select "Custom Search Filter" option and customize it accordingly.

- You can also configure following options while setting up AD. Enable Activate LDAP in order to authenticate users from AD/LDAP. Click on the Save button to add user store.

Here's the list of the attributes and what it does when we enable it. You can enable/disable accordingly.
Attribute |
Description |
Activate LDAP |
All user authentications will be done with LDAP credentials if you Activate it |
Sync users in miniOrange |
Users will be created in miniOrange after authentication with LDAP |
Backup Authentication |
If LDAP credentials fail then user will be authenticated through miniOrange |
Allow users to change password |
This allows your users to change their password. It updates the new credentials in your LDAP server |
Enable administrator login |
On enabling this, your miniOrange Administrator login authenticates using your LDAP server |
Show IdP to users |
If you enable this option, this IdP will be visible to users |
Send Configured Attributes |
If you enable this option, then only the attributes configured below will be sent in attributes at the time of login |
- Click on Save. After this, it will show you the list of User stores. Click on Test Configuration to check whether you have enter valid details. For that, it will ask for username and password.

- On Successful connection with LDAP Server, a success message is shown.
- Click on Test Attribute Mapping.

- Enter a valid Username. Then, click on Test. Mapped Attributes corresponding to the user are fetched.

- After successful Attribute Mapping Configuration, go back to the ldap configuration and enable Activate LDAP in order to authenticate users from AD/LDAP.
Refer our guide to setup LDAPS on windows server.
User Import and Provisioning from AD
- Go to Settings in the Customer Admin Account.

- Enable the "Enable User Auto Registration" option and click Save.

- (Optional) To send a welcome email to all the end users that will be imported, enable the "Enable sending Welcome Emails after user registration" option and click Save.

- From the Left-Side menu of the dashboard select Provisioning.

- In Setup Provisioning tab select Active Directory in the Select Application Drop Down.
- Toggle the Import Users tab, click on Save button.

- On the same section, switch to Import Users section.
- Select Active Directory from the dropdown and click on the Import Users tab, to import all the users from Active Directory to miniOrange.

- You can view all the Users you have imports by selecting Users >> User List from Left Panel.

- All the imported users will be auto registered.
- These groups will be helpful in adding multiple 2FA policies on the applications.
miniOrange integrates with various external user sources such as directories, identity providers, and etc.
5. Adaptive Authentication with ArcGIS
A. Restricting access to ArcGIS with IP Blocking
B. Adaptive Authentication with Limiting number of devices.
Using Adaptive Authentication you can also restrict the number of devices the end user can access the Services on. You can allow end users to access services on a fixed no. of devices. The end users will be able to access services provided by us on this fixed no. of devices.
You can configure Adaptive Authentication with Device Restriction in following way
- Login to Self Service Console >> Adaptive Authentication.
- Add a Policy Name for your Adaptive Authentication Policy.
- Select your Action for behaviour Change and Challenge Type for user from the Action for behaviour Change Section.

- Scroll down to Device Configuration section and enable Allow User to Register Device option to allow users to register their devices.
- Enter the Number of Devices which are allowed to register in field next to Number of Device Registrations Allowed
- Choose Action if number of devices exceeded (This will override your setting for Action for Behaviour Change.)
- Challenge: The user needs to verify himself using any of the three methods mentioned in table in step 5.1
- Deny : Deny users access to the system
- Enable option Send email alerts to Users if number of Device registrations exceeded allowed count if you want to alert the user about no of devices exceeding the limit. Save the configuration.

C. Add Adaptive Authentication policy to ArcGIS.
- Login to Self Service Console >> Policies.
- Click on Edit option for predefined SAML app policy.

- Set your application name in the Application and select password as Login Method.
- Enable Adaptive Authentication on Policy page and select the required restriction method as an option.
- From Select Login Policy dropdown select the policy we created in last step and click on save.

How to add a trusted Device
- When End-user log in to the self service console after the policy for device restriction is on, he is provided the option to add the current device as a trusted device.
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