SAML, for Security Assertion Markup Language, is an XML based open standard for exchanging AuthN and AuthZ. SAML helps with SSO, Federated and Web. It was perplexing why SharePoint 2013 would not support SAML 2.0 while ADFS 2.0 released few years ago as a download for Windows Server 2008, did support SAML 2.0. Recently I was at SharePoint conference 2014 in Las Vegas. I had the opportunity to meet up with Principal Program Manager and discussed this. He listened to the good and bad and said that he will take this feedback to the team. A week later MS announces SAML 2.0 support for O365! Wow, that was fast guys! Well I know my feedback has nothing to do with this announcement but I am pretty glad that we have this available in O365. Question still, does SharePoint in O365 supports this? and what is the plan for SharePoint 2013 on-prem? Hmm, may be I should touch base with MS to find out more. Anyways read about it here: Announcing support for SAML 2.0 federation with Office 365 Wha...