Yvand
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11 months ago Hi Peter, to answer your questions:
- LDAPCP can connect to any LDAP server, it never communicates with the STS itself so it does not matter if you use ADFS or any other one, as long as the users/groups live in a LDAP server
- In LDAPCP you can configure the people picker entity metadata to map the user's profile display name / email address, but only in the SPSite where it runs. Also, SharePoint will actually write those user's profile properties only if the user is added to the SPSite for the very first time.
- The User Profile service is totally optional, but it may be handy to use it to sync users' properties to all SPSites
freestylo73
Bonjour Yvan.
In our proof-of-concept setup of SharePoint Subscription Editon, we are not using ADFS but a different STS, albeit with the goal to mimic as much as possible the claims provided by ADFS (there's a Dynamics 365 v9 involved also but that's not what brought me here). When reading the description of the project it states "...when authentication is federated with ADFS". To give you a better grasp of what we (well, me :) ), are trying to achieve is having the SharePoint being fed with users from an OpenLDAP server. I did some tests but was unable to have LDAPCP to pick the user/email address, and I also wonder if I can avoid usind the User Profile service. As a starting point to clarify some of my doubts my question is, does LDAPCP only works when federated with ADFS? Thank you.
Peter