Successfactors inbound provisioning to AD / AAD - SAP will require OAUTH2 athentication

Meechan, Andrew 1 Reputation point
2022-02-11T12:26:22.547+00:00

SAP have announced the ending of HTTP Basic authentication for the SF ODATA API.

Currently the tutorial says Basic Authentication must be enabled in SF. Will the Successfactors Inbound provisioning connector be updated to support OAuth, or does it already?

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  1. Chetan Desai 971 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2022-02-11T15:37:47.43+00:00

    I'm part of the Azure AD provisioning PM team. We are aware that SAP SuccessFactors plans to sunset basic authentication in the second half of 2022 (probably around Oct/Nov 2022). We have a backlog work item to update the authentication to support to OAuth before then. For now, please proceed with using Basic Authentication. Once we rollout OAuth support, we will update the integration and provide customers the ability to switch from Basic to OAuth-based authentication.

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  2. Chetan Desai 971 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2022-04-07T17:04:11.377+00:00

    Please note that SAP SuccessFactors updated their guidance and the new deprecation date for basic auth is 17-Nov-2023.
    Link to updated guidance: https://help.sap.com/doc/62fddbd651204629b46bbccbabf886ba/cloud/en-US/fcc05a902b4140e585d968c2fe4a96bc.html

    We will accordingly plan Azure AD provisioning service enhancement to support OAuth before the deprecation date.

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  3. Chetan Desai 971 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2023-03-15T19:57:41.0333333+00:00

    SAP has further pushed out the date for deprecation/deletion of the basic authentication feature to November 20, 2026. 

    Refer: Deprecation of HTTP Basic Authentication for APIs | SAP Help Portal

    This gives customers and partners more time to plan their move from Basic Auth to OAuth. We have not yet finalized our plan and timeline to move to OAuth. There will be a preview of this capability before the official release. We will share updates on this capability through the Azure AD - What's new page. 

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  4. Reinaldo Malo 25 Reputation points
    2023-02-03T14:02:31.3366667+00:00

    Hello, Chetan and James, my name is Reinaldo Malo.

    Right now, I have an implementation in a customer that has Sap Successfactor with Active Direcotry On-Premises.

    My question is if Microsoft has a preview before the official release of the official version.

    Regards,

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