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CRM Online & Windows Azure: Improving the SSO experience

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This is supposed to be one of a series of CRM Online & Windows Azure posts for which I have been building some samples.  While I really wanted to make this the second or third post, someone needed the explanation sooner, so this will be somewhat of a tease to the overall series.

Scenario:

I’ve already configured SSO across Windows Azure & CRM Online.  When I try to integrate an Azure hosted page into the CRM UI, I get the following errors:

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This video walks you through why you get the error and how to work around it with a better user experience.

Here’s the code for the two helper pages…

ssoinitiator.htm (CRM Web Resource)

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

    <head>

        <title></title>

        <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5">

        <script type="text/javascript">
   1:  




   2:             function getQuerystring(key, default_) {




   3:                 if (default_ == null) default_ = "";




   4:                 key = key.replace(/[[]/, "\[").replace(/[]]/, "\]");




   5:                 var regex = new RegExp("[\?&]" + key + "=([^&#]*)");




   6:                 var qs = regex.exec(window.location.href);




   7:                 if (qs == null)




   8:                     return default_;




   9:                 else




  10:                     return qs[1];




  11:             }




  12:  




  13:             function redirectToIntendedPage() {




  14:                 window.location = decodeURIComponent(getQuerystring("data"));




  15:             }




  16:  




  17:             function bodyOnload() {




  18:                 if (document.cookie.indexOf("AZURE_SSO_COMPLETE=") != -1) {




  19:                     redirectToIntendedPage();




  20:                 } else {




  21:                     var message = document.getElementById("message");




  22:                     message.style.visibility = "visible";




  23:  




  24:                     if (document.cookie.indexOf("AZURE_SSO_INITIATED=") == -1) {




  25:                         document.cookie = "AZURE_SSO_INITIATED=true";




  26:                         window.open("https://crmazrfedtest.cloudapp.net/SSOHelper.htm");//replace with your azure hosted version




  27:                     } else {




  28:                         document.cookie = "AZURE_SSO_COMPLETE=true";




  29:                         redirectToIntendedPage();




  30:                     }




  31:                 }




  32:             }




  33:         




</script>






    </head>




    <body onload="bodyOnload() ">




        <div id="message" style="visibility:hidden">




            <h1>Initiating Single Sign On...</h1>




            <p>This page will refresh shortly.</p>




        </div>




    </body>




</html>

SSOHelper.htm (Azure hosted)

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

    <head>

        <title>SSO Helper</title>

        <script type="text/javascript">
   1:  




   2:             function bodyOnload() {




   3:                 window.close();




   4:             }




   5:         




</script>






        <meta http-equiv="expires" content="-1" />




        <meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache" />




    </head>




    <body onload="bodyOnload()">




        <div>




            <h1>Single Sign On Complete</h1>




            <p>Please close this window.</p>




        </div>




    </body>




</html>

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