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Form the Policy to Protect the Target Resource

After you create the realm, you add it to a policy that protects target federation resources.

Note: The following procedure assumes that a user directory has already been created.

To create a policy for the target federation resources

1. Log on to the FSS Administrative UI.
2. Expand the domain with the target realm.
3. Select the Policies object.

   The Policy Properties dialog opens.

4. Configure the policy, using the realm you previously created for federation resources.
5. Save the policy.
6. Exit the FSS Administrative UI.

For more information about creating policies, see the Policy Server Configuration Guide.

Configure a Single Target Realm for All Authentication Schemes

To simplify configuration of realms for authentication schemes, create a single target realm for multiple sites generating assertions.

To do this task, set up the following components:

• A single custom authentication scheme

  This custom scheme forwards requests to the corresponding SAML or WS-Federation authentication schemes that you already configured for each asserting party.

• A single realm with one target URL

More information:

Create the Custom Authentication Scheme

Configure the Single Target Realm