Active Directory Federated Services. A SAML 2.0 compliant identity provider that integrates with Active Directory.

Identity Data Provider. This is the external service that provides user authentication.

An opaque reference to state information maintained at the service provider. This is used to support deep-linking in SD Elements.

Specifies a different location to which SAML response messages sent as part of the protocol or profile should be sent.

If SD Elements is configured to perform SP-Initiated SAML SSO, it will redirect the user to the configured IdP with an authentication request object. SD Elements can be configured to sign this authentication request.

Service Provider. In this documentation, this refers to SD Elements.