Below, you find information to setup Azure AD and our SAML SSO apps for Atlassian Data Center and Server products. If you our need help or have questions, you can contact us via our helpdesk or book a free screen share session at https://resolution.de/go/calendly.

Step-by-Step Guides

Based on your user provisioning model, pick one of the following step-by-step guides.

In most cases we recommend to use Azure AD with User Sync.

• Azure AD with User Sync
  Setting up User synchronisation with Azure AD, as well as authentication via SAML
  
  
• Azure AD with Just-in-Time Provisioning
  Setting up authentication via SAML with Azure AD and using Just-in-Time Provisioning to create/update User Accounts during login.
  
  
• Azure AD with Manual Provisioning
  Setting up authentication via SAML with Azure AD for Users that already exist in the Atlassian product.

Some important notes:

Which Step-by-Step Guide should you pick?

Depending on your Atlassian Data Center or Server product, you can choose from different user provisioning models. We recommend using User Sync, since it is easy to setup and maintain. 

In general, with Azure AD we support the following ways for user provisioning:

1. User Sync allows to sync users periodically from Azure AD, but also when they log in for the first time into your Atlassian product. See our detailed article for User Sync.
2. Just in Time Provisioning allows to create and update users on-the-fly when they log in. A drawback for syncing groups from Azure is, that only group ids and no group names are sent.  See our detailed article for JIT.
3. LDAP synchronisation from Active Directory. Is you instance still synchronised to your Active Directory via LDAP, you can continue to do so. Please follow the "Manual User Management" Guide in this scenario.
4. For Manual User Management, the administrator has to has to create and update users on Azure and your Atlassian Data Center or Server product by hand.
   We do not recommend it. See our article for Manual User Management.