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title: Service provider SSO configuration
description: You can use the PingFederate administrative console as a service provider (SP) to configure local application-integration information and to manage connections to your identity provider (IdP)-partner sites.
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revdate: July 5, 2022
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# Service provider SSO configuration

You can use the PingFederate administrative console as a service provider (SP) to configure local application-integration information and to manage connections to your identity provider (IdP)-partner sites.

Only one connection is needed per partner, even if integrating more than one web application.

While you define your entity ID on the **Federation Info** tab of the **Protocol Settings** window, you can identify your organization differently through the use of virtual server IDs on a per-connection basis. For more information, see [Multiple virtual server IDs](../introduction_to_pingfederate/virtual_server_id.html).

Additionally, you can deploy an SP connection to bridge a service provider to one or more identity providers through one or more authentication policy contracts. For more information, see [Federation hub use cases](../introduction_to_pingfederate/pf_fed_hub_use_case.html) and [Federation hub and authentication policy contracts](../introduction_to_pingfederate/pf_fed_hub_auth_polic_contract.html).

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|   | This topic applies to configuration settings needed for browser-based single sign-on (SSO). Although this information also applies to WS-Trust security token service (STS), if you are using PingFederate exclusively as an STS, start with [WS-Trust STS configuration](pf_wstrust_sts_config.html). |