This is my last post about using SSO on Biztalk Server. In this post I will show how to set and retrieve configuration data from SSO.
To configure and set configuration data, Microsoft has an MMC Snap-In called “SSO Configuration Application”, that allow us to create and manipulate applications and their properties (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14524).
From the community there are several tools to set SSO configuration. The most well know was created by Richard Seroter in 2007 that allow us to manipulate previously created properties in an easy way (http://seroter.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/biztalk-sso-configuration-data-storage-tool/). There are also some Richard Seroter tool improvements, like a version from Mark Burch in http://biztorque.net/archive/2010/06/07/74.aspx, that allow us to create new SSO properties.
BizTalk Deployment Framework also include an SSO module, that use a different approach of using the Excel to set SSO config data in each environment (http://biztalkdeployment.codeplex.com/).
To get configuration from SSO by code, you can use “SSOConfigHelper.cs” included in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 SDK, but still working with the latest Biztalk server versions (http://www.getcodesamples.com/src/2B2085E1/C4A921B1).
Just get the code and include “Microsoft.BizTalk.Interop.SSOClient.dll” in SSO install folder (for example C:\Program Files\Common Files\Enterprise Single Sign-On\Interop1.1\Microsoft.BizTalk.Interop.SSOClient.dll) and call the read method, setting the previous create application and property name.
Hope that 4 posts about SSO will help you to use SSO more frequently in BizTalk programming.
