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SAML for Service Desk customers?

Dirk Festerling
Contributor
February 14, 2018

We are using Service Desk Cloud as an internal support tool for our company users. Most of them handle their issues by email. Some make even use out of the support portal, but most don't even know the password of their accounts. Because they have been created automatically when they sent the first email.

I would like to promote the usage of our portal, offer some confluence FAQ articles there etc. But having to sign in  is a nuicance for the customers... Now I figured out that we could use Identiy-Manager to provide single sign on even to my customers, because all have email adresses with the same (managed) domain.

After talking with Atlassian license support, I understood that in future all managed accounts (even the one for Service Desk customers) will be billed with 3 USD per user and month. We have round about 200 active users in our company and I would have to create a (billed) account for everyone (if I see that somebody joined the company)... In addition, I have no idea how to handle resigned users... They keep billed unless I disable them, but since they are not part of our team, I don't know about their leave...  In the end I will have a monthly bill of at least 600 USD that keeps growing - completeley out of my control...

Obviously I can't justify the usage of Identiy-Manager under that circumstances. Are there any alternatives to use Atlassian's cloud services and still provide a smooth experience to my customers?

Thanks a lot for your input and best regards!
Dirk

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Jayant Suneja
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October 24, 2021

Hi,

The error you notice is due to an incorrect certificate uploaded to SAML configuration at Atlassian organization.

For the next attempt to configure SAML, please make sure the certificate downloaded from Azure is the correct certificate before uploading to SAML configuration. 

One of the ways to ensure the certificate is by decoding the certificate here: https://www.sslshopper.com/certificate-decoder.html and confirming it displays:

Common Name: Microsoft Azure Federated SSO Certificate

Regards,
Jayant

Dani Perez
Contributor
May 31, 2023

Hi,

I'm having this same issue and the certificate is correct.

Any idea?

Thanks,

Dani

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julianhennig
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October 24, 2021

Disabled SAML in Azure and could login again. 

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