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Comment: Move JIT explnation to the oubound section

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You configure JIT provisioning against an identity provider - not against service providers. Whenever you associate an identity provider with a service provider for outbound authentication, if the JIT provisioning is enabled for that particular identity provider, then the users from the external identity provider will be provisioned into the Identity Server's internal user store. In the JIT provisioning configuration you can also pick the provisioning user store.

JIT provisioning happens while in the middle of an authentication flow. The provisioning can happen in a blocking mode or in a non-blocking mode. In the blocking mode, the authentication flow will be blocked till the provisioning finishes - while in the non-blocking mode, provisioning happens in a different thread.

Outbound provisioning

Outbound provisioning talks about provisioning users to external systems. This can be initiated by any of the following.

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  • SCIM
  • SPML
  • SOAP
  • Google Apps provisioning API
  • Salesforce provisioning API

JIT provisioning happens while in the middle of an authentication flow. The provisioning can happen in a blocking mode or in a non-blocking mode. In the blocking mode, the authentication flow will be blocked till the provisioning finishes - while in the non-blocking mode, provisioning happens in a different thread.

Conditional provisioning with roles

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