Create a Microsoft IIS IWA application

Complete this task to create the required Microsoft IIS IWA application in Access Gateway.

  1. Sign in to the Access Gateway Admin UI console.
  2. Click the Applications tab.
  3. Click +Add.
  4. Select Microsoft IIS IWA from the left column menu, and click Create.
  5. If required, expand the Essentials pane and enter:
    Field Value
    Label The name of the application, as shown in your Okta Tenant. For example:Microsoft IIS Application
    Public Domain The externally facing URL of the application. For example: https://iis.idaasgateway.net
    Protected Web Resource Fully qualified URL to the Microsoft backing application.
    Group The group containing users who can access the application.
  6. [Optional] Assign load balancers
    1. Expand the Protected Web Resource tab.
    2. Enable Load Balancing By Access Gateway. A table of hostnames and weights representing the target load-balancing instances appears. This table is initially empty. Click the Edit icon to modify an entry in the table, or click the Delete icon to delete an entry.
    3. Choose either HTTP or HTTPS as the URL scheme. Each protected web resource that you add inherits this scheme.
    4. Optional. Enable and enter the Host Header value.
    5. Complete the following steps to add a host. Repeat these steps as required:
      1. Click Add protected web resource.
      2. Enter a fully qualified hostname:port combination, like for example, https://backendserver1.atko.com:7001.
      3. Enter a weight from 1 to 100. Enter 0 to specify that a host is disabled.
      4. Click Okay.
    6. Optional. Configure health checks. They use GET operations to confirm that back-end resources are functional. New requests aren't routed to resources that have been labeled unhealthy by the health checks.

      1. Enable Load Balancer Health Check.
      2. Click Edit to modify health check settings.
      3. Modify the settings as required.
        Field Value

        Default

        Path The URI path to the resource used in the health check. /
        Method The HTTP method used in the health check. Always GET
        Status code The HTTP status code used to determine health. 200
        Interval The interval between health checks in seconds. 10
        Request timeout The health check request timeout in seconds. 1
        Healthy threshold The number of requests that must succeed before a host is considered healthy. 3
        Unhealthy threshold The number of requests that must fail before a host is considered unhealthy. 3
      4. Click Save.
  7. Expand the Certificates tab.
  8. Optional. Click Generate self-signed certificate. A self-signed certificate is created and automatically assigned to the app.
  9. Optional. Select an existing certificate from the list. Use the Search field to narrow the set of certificates by common name. Use the page forward and backward arrows to navigate through the list.
  10. Click Next
  11. In the Application pane, enter:
    Field Value
    Kerberos Realm Enter the name of the associated realm
  12. Click Next.
  13. In the Attributes pane:
    1. Click Add attribute to add an attribute what corresponds to sAMAccountName.

    2. Verify he following:
      Field Value

      Data Source

      IDP

      Field

      IDP attribute that correlates with the users sAMAccountName

      Type

      Header

      name iwa_username
    3. Click Save.
  14. Click Done.

The application is added and the Application list page is displayed.