Believe it or not, not everyone uses Microsoft Active Directory for their User Directory. Even more shocking is that many customers are using GSuite - not Office365 - for their Productivity Apps, Google Pixelbooks as their devices, and if they're smart Google Pixel devices for their mobile devices. Obviously all managed by VMware Workspace ONE UEM. All jokes and shameless plugs aside, I am starting to see a few customers now who live only in the Google ecosystem and don't need or want to keep other services. They only use GSuite and as a result they don't have Active Directory to sync to Identity Manager and I'm being asked by colleagues around the region on how to use all the benefits of Workspace ONE UEM while still being able to leverage their Google investment.
Below, I am going to start off by showing you how to configure Google as a 3rd Party IDP in Identity Manager. There will a follow up article to this in the coming days which will talk about how to also use this configuration with the Workspace ONE UEM (Airwatch) components to round out the full set of capabilities.
This article will show you all the steps to add Google as a 3rd Party IDP in vIDM, add users via Just-In-Time Provisioning and sign into Identity Manager.
Lets dig in.
