Month: February 2017

Does SharePoint 2016 support SAML 2.0

There may be some confusion, looking at all the public documentation for SharePoint, in regard to exactly what is and isn’t supported in terms of SAML tokens. This article https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262350(v=office.16).aspx#plansaml states the following: SAML token-based authentication SAML token-based authentication in SharePoint Server 2016 uses the SAML 1.1 protocol and the WS-Federation Passive Requestor Profile (WS-F PRP).