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Thanks Nick, that is really helpful. --------------- JISC Executive JISC London office 1st Floor, Brettenham House South 5 Lancaster Place London WC2N 7EN tel: +44 (0)20 3006 6035 mobile: +44 (0)7841951306 fax: +44 (0)20 7240 5377 Nick Howes wrote: > On 29/03/10 12:02, Nicole Harris wrote: >> Hi Al >> >> Seems to be working fine for me at the moment. I e-mailed the other >> federations to see if they had experienced a problem recently and the >> spanish confirmed that they had some outage due to metadata problems >> at dreamspark that had been fixed. If you want to check and get back >> to me if there are still UK specific problems I can continue to chase. >> >> Much appreciated >> >> Nicole > > We do still have the issue. The response I got just now is: > > "Thanks for reporting this, DreamSpark now supports SAML2 integration > as well. If you want to integration of UK federation with DreamSpark > on SAML2 also, then we can start this process. > > We firstly need the integration update on DreamSpark Staging site and > then on Production site. > > Should we send you DreamSpark staging SAML 2 Meta data file?" > > > So they have recently upgraded to support SAML2 - the only problem is > that they're only half-supporting it at the moment - their server will > try to do SAML2 but their metadata in the UK federation doesn't have > their new SAML2 endpoints, and recent versions of Shibboleth 2 reject > this. > > > I'm not keen on adding development metadata to our live IdP so I've > requested that they go back to using our SAML1 SSO binding, as they > used to. >