About Access Manager Single Sign-On

Access Manager SSO supports SSO access to all web-based interfaces. When a user first accesses an SSO-enabled service through a web browser, Access Manager authenticates the user and then sends a SSO cookie to the user's web browser. When the user accesses another SSO-enabled service, the user's web browser first confirms with Access Manager that the user's session is still open and then returns the SSO cookie, which confirms authentication, to Access Manager. The user is able to access the next service without logging in again.

To set up Access Manager SSO for the evaluation solution, you configure your Messaging Server and Calendar Server instances to use SSO instead of their default authentication mechanisms. Access Manager and Communications Express are configured by default for Access Manager SSO.