A single user cannot sign in through SSO. Everyone else is fine. How do you troubleshoot?
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The scope of the symptom is the diagnostic, and it points squarely at that user's data rather than at configuration. Configuration failures are democratic — they break everyone at once.
My sequence is: open Login History and find the failed attempt, because it records the specific single sign-on error and the source IP. Then look at the user record for the identifier the configuration relies on — usually the Federation ID. The recurring causes are a blank Federation ID, a duplicate value shared with another user, a case mismatch (it is treated as case-sensitive), a user who is inactive or has lost their licence, and login hours or IP ranges on the profile that happen to bite this person.
If that does not resolve it, I capture the actual assertion and run it through the SAML Assertion Validator, which tells me the subject value the identity provider is really sending — often different from what the directory team believes it is sending.
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