BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Adapters without Single Sign-On Capability

Introduction

BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Adapters without Single Sign-On Capability

Single Sign-On (SSO) is not only used in the typical scenario of interactive web sessions, it is also used to remove password management from BizTalk administrators and operators when deploying updated BizTalk applications. That's why most of the WCF adapters are listed here: With Azure, there is a Shared Access Signature or an Access Control Service STS Uri. Both of them has Name and Key, and the Key is a Base64-encoded string which is considered clear text. The Key, as other passwords in BizTalk, is not exported when exporting bindings to a file (and are entered masked).

For some adapters it does not make sense to use SSO due to the nature of the communication method, but they are listed here to make the list complete.

Adapters in BizTalk Server 2013 R2 single sign-on capability (source: http://stackoverflow.com/a/37174322/1750471):

Adapter

Receive

Send

Use SSO

SSO Affiliate

ACS/SAS

Proxy

Endpoint Behaviour

SSO Affiliate

ACS/SAS

Proxy

Endpoint Behaviour

File

No

No

No

FTP

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

HTTP

Yes

Yes

No

MQSeries

No

Yes

MSMQ

No

No

No

POP3

No

No

SB-Messaging

No

No

No

SFTP

No

No

No

No

SOAP

Yes

Yes

No

SQL

No

No

No

WCF-BasicHttp 

Yes

in WCF-Custom

Yes

No

No

in WCF-Custom

WCF-BasicHttpRelay

No

No

No

Yes

No

No

No

WCF-Custom

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

WCF-CustomIsolated

Yes

Yes

WCF-NetMsmq

in WCF-Custom

Yes

in WCF-Custom

WCF-NetNamedPipe

Yes

in WCF-Custom

in WCF-Custom

WCF-NetTcp

Yes

in WCF-Custom

Yes

in WCF-Custom

 WCF-NetTcpRelay 

No

No

Yes

No

No

WCF-OracleDB

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

WCF-OracleEBS 

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

WCF-SQL 

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

WCF-WebHttp

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

WCF-WSHttp 

Yes

in WCF-Custom

Yes

No

No

in WCF-Custom

Windows Sharepoint Server

No

No

No

See Also

Another important place to find a huge amount of BizTalk related articles is the TechNet Wiki itself. The best entry point is BizTalk Server Resources on the TechNet Wiki.