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SSO for Jira Sevice Managment

Luke Verheyden
Contributor
July 30, 2026

My org now has guard. I have set up the SSO authentication policy in Atlassian user admin and added users into it. 

Does mean that those users will now be able to use SSO to log into the help desk portal or is there another step. 

I have set the portal to open under channel access and given test users service desk users permission in atlassian admin. 

The reason I am asking is that I seem to get mixed results from users trying to log in.

 

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Andrea Robbins
Community Champion
July 30, 2026

This should be fine as long as the users are internal, managed Atlassian accounts within an auth policy. This sounds good but one thing to check is if the option to create their own account is set and the managed accounts option is set to auto claim any account with your domain. Otherwise, if someone hasn’t been added before, it will block him or her 

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Luke Verheyden
Contributor
July 31, 2026

Only reason I ask is ive seen this menu in jira apps admin asking to set up SSO. But SSO is already set up in altlassian admin settings with everyone already assigned to that authentication policy. 

It seems strange to ask me to set it up again?

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Marc -Devoteam-
Community Champion
July 30, 2026

Hi @Luke Verheyden 

See /user-provisioning-and-saml-single-sign-on-for-jira-service-management-customers if this relates to uses with a Jira account.

If this is for portal customers only, then this is differetn, see configure-saml-single-sign-on-for-portal-only-customers 

Marc -Devoteam-
Community Champion
July 31, 2026

Hi @Luke Verheyden 

No you don't have to do the setup agian.

This is described it you use this KB and don't have this setup yet, as this a prerequisite.

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