Friday, May 4, 2012

Secure Store Service SharePoint Server 2010

The Secure Store Service replaces the single sign-on (SSO) feature of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The Secure Store Service is a claims-aware authorization service that includes a secure database for storing credentials.


The Secure Store Service is an authorization service that runs on an application server. The Secure Store Service provides a database that is used to store credentials. These credentials usually consist of a user identity and password, but can also contain other fields that you define. For example, SharePoint Server 2010 can use the secure store database to store and retrieve credentials for access to external data sources. The Secure Store Service provides support for storing multiple sets of credentials for multiple back-end systems.


Secure store service and claims authentication

The Secure Store Service is a claims-aware service. It can accept security tokens and decrypt them to get the application ID, and then perform a lookup. When a SharePoint Server 2010 Security Token Service (STS) issues a security token in response to an authentication request, the Secure Store Service decrypts the token and reads the application ID value. The Secure Store Service uses the application ID to retrieve credentials from the secure store database. The credentials are then used to authorize access to resources.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Users cannot see the checked out files in the folder/ library

I Came across a Issue today wherein the user opened a ticket for the below issue Issue : Users cannot see the checked out files in the fo...