Using ODBC with Salesforce and Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) Single Sign On (SSO)

This blog describes how to get an ODBC connection to a Salesforce instance that has been integrated with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS).

The Salesforce ODBC driver has been tested with a Salesforce and ADFS environment that was set up by following this Salesforce tutorial:

• Configure SSO to Salesforce Using Microsoft AD FS as the Identity Provider

Note that we set up ADFS on a Windows Server 2012 machine rather than a Windows Server 2008 machine as used in the tutorial.

Using the Easysoft Salesforce ODBC driver with ADFS

Install and license the Salesforce ODBC driver.

Complete the Salesforce ODBC data source configuration dialog box as follows:

Field	Value
Use Oauth	SSO AD FS
User Name	windows-active-directory-user@windows-active-directory-domain For example, myuser@mydomain.org.
Password	The password for this user.
SSO Token URL	The Salesforce OAuth 2.0 Token Endpoint. This is located in the Salesforce back end under Setup > Security Controls > Single Sign-On Settings > SAML Single Sign-On Settings > ADFS > OAuth 2.0 Token Endpoint. (Click the ADFS link, not the nearby Edit button.)
SSO Relying Party	The display name of the Relying Party Trust you configured for Salesforce.
SSO Login URL	https://windows-server-machine-name