Identity and Access Management, Identity Governance

7 Steps to configuring your Schedule Task on Microsoft Windows This post will go over the steps to schedule a task on Windows. Microsoft Windows provides a Task Scheduler which can be configured to invoke or run a process, script or a task for a specified condition. The task can be specified to run at a particular time, Weekly, Daily, Monthly, or when user logs into the computer, boot up time etc. Tasks can be repeated or delayed as required.  You can automate several tasks with the Windows Scheduler that can be run at a specified event or time. Follow each of the 7 steps below to configure your Scheduled Task. The screenshots with 7 steps are shown below are for creating a Task. The task is invoked at a particular time or when an event occurs. At the particular time or when the event occurs, the task is trigger by the Scheduler. Step 1: How to Access Task Scheduler To access the Task Scheduler, open the Control Panel, it is under Administrative Tools. Follow the path Contr

WebLogic server integration with SAML - SP initiated and IDP initiated Single sign on This post will cover the two scenarios of SSO in SAML Federation, the SP-initiated SSO flow and IdP-initiated SSO flow. Both these flows are part of the SAML Web SSO and valid for various integrations with WebLogic server, PingFederate or Okta. There are two models for Web SSO - SP-initiated and IdP-initiated. SP-initiated and IdP-initiated models The above diagram shows the two models for Web SSO flow.  Since there are two options, the first choice is to decide your use case of where the user will start the process of the Web SSO. The SP-initiated SSO flow is described first and followed by IdP-initiated SSO flow. SP-initiated SSO flow In this use case, the user is provided with a published URL which the user accesses via their browser which takes them directly to the Service Provider (SP) Application URL/resource. However since the user is not logged in at the SP, the user request is redirected to t