Since SharePoint 2013, web applications are created with claims based authentication by default. This works with together with High trust provider hosted apps, based on windows authentication as well. Whenever ADFS with its SAML claims pops in, it gets complicated: SharePoint needs to be configured, High trust provider apps need to configured and the app needs to communicate with SharePoint – using saml claims. Mix in a development environment, where, very likely, no ADFS is available and it gets complicated. Until now ;).
This blogpost describes how to setup an identity provider STS for development environments, how to configure SharePoint to use this STS and how to develop a web application that uses SAML claims and can communicate with SharePoint. All using OWIN, as it easens up development. More information on the STS and the OWIN configuration can be found in my previous blogpost in this series:
- How to setup a simple STS for web application development – part 1
- Configure claims based web application using OWIN – part 2
- Setup your development environment for High trust Saml Claims based SharePoint provider hosted applications using OWIN – part 3 (this post)