The purpose of this document is to guide a PingFederate and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 (Dynamics CRM) administrator through the configuration of both products so that federated users can log on to Dynamics CRM using claims-based authentication. The document outlines how to configure an SP connection compatible with Dynamics CRM within PingFederate and how to configure Dynamics CRM to consume the federation metadata provided by the SP connection.

Note: Knowledge of Dynamics CRM is assumed as well as familiarity with PingFederate.