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Project Moonshot is a Janet-led initiative, in partnership with the GÉANT project and others, to develop a single unifying technology for extending the benefits of federated identity to a broad range of non-Web services, including Cloud infrastructures, High Performance Computing & Grid infrastructures and other commonly deployed services including mail, file store, remote access and instant messaging. The goal of the technology is to enable the management of access to a broad range of services and applications, using a single technology and infrastructure. This is expected to significantly improve the delivery of these services by providing users with a common single sign-on, for both internal and external services. Service providers will be able to more easily offer their services to users from other organisations using a single common authentication mechanism. This will enhance the user’s experience, and reduce costs for those organisations supporting users, and delivering services to them. This group is for community of Moonshot users, whether you're new to the technology, you're currently evaluating and getting to grips with it, or you've deployed it. For the list of guidance available about Moonshot within this group, see the Start Here wiki page. Jisc Assent, the production service underpinned by the Moonshot technology, went live on 25th March 2015. For information on, or to join the Jisc Assent service, please visit http://www.jisc.ac.uk/assent

Application Compatibility - Server - Microsoft IIS

1. Introduction

Microsoft Internet Information Services is Microsoft's webserver. See here for more details.

Enabling Moonshot authentication to IIS will require the use of the Moonshot SSP, as IIS is integrated with the Windows SSPI.

2. Compatibility

This section presents a list of the known different versions of the software and the status of compatibility of each of these.

2.1 Confirmed working

The following versions of the software have been tested and are confirmed to allow Moonshot authentication via the Windows SSP.

  • N/A

2.2 Suspected to work

The following versions of the software have not been tested, but it is suspected that they should allow Moonshot authentication via the Windows SSP.

Please let us know if you've tried any of these whether your trial was successful or unsuccessful...

  • N/A

2.3 Known to not work

The following versions of the software have been tested and are confirmed to not allow Moonshot authentication via the Windows SSP:

  • None

2.4 Unknown

The following versions of the software are known to exist, but we have no idea whether they work or not.

Please let us know if you've tried any of these whether your trial was successful or unsuccessful...

  • Microsoft Exchange 1.0 (shipped with Windows NT 3.51)
  • Microsoft Exchange 2.0 (shipped with Windows NT 4.0)
  • Microsoft Exchange 3.0 (shipped with Windows NT 4.0 SP2)
  • Microsoft Exchange 4.0 (option pack for Windows NT 4.0)
  • Microsoft Exchange 5.0 (shipped with Windows 2000)
  • Microsoft Exchange 5.1 (shipped with Windows XP Professional)
  • Microsoft Exchange 6.0 (shipped with Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Profession x64)
  • Microsoft Exchange 7.0 (shipped with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista)
  • Microsoft Exchange 7.5 (shipped with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7)
  • Microsoft Exchange 8.0 (shipped with Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8)
  • Microsoft Exchange 8.5 (shipped with Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1)

3. Client Compatibility

The following clients are known to work with this server software (click on the link to see further information about that client)

4. Configuration Instructions

This section presents a list of configuration instructions specific to this piece of software.

4.1 Moonshot configuration

No specific Moonshot SSP configuration, once installed, is necessary.

4.2 Microsoft IIS configuration

TODO

4.3 Accessing authorisation information from within web applications

TODO