Notes Shared Login/Notes Federated Login and Smart Card Support

One of our customers wants to implement Single-Sign-On for Notes Clients on Windows Operating Systems and in the future they plan to implement Smart Cards as a Login mechanism on Windows PCs.

Due to some misleading official articles, I was not sure if Smart Cards are supported with NSL or NFL. After a check with IBM Support, it turns out that Smart Cards are supported with Notes Shared Login and Notes Federated Login, as long as you do not use “Smart Card Protected ID” Feature.

So, as long you use Smart Cards solely for OS access/login you are good to go to use NSL or NFL for Notes SSO.