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1. Review and decide to accept the SWAMID Metadata Terms of Use (ToU). If you accept the ToU you do not need to communicate this to SWAMID Operations.

2. We tag Service Providers with entity categories and encourage our IdPs to use them for attribute release. Please read through our Entity Categories for Service Providers and decide which apply best for you. Please provide a motivation for your choice as described in the defined request processes for each entity category!
3. Email SWAMID Operations to register and publish metadata for the service provider. This step implies acceptance of the ToU and constitutes a legally binding agreement to abide by the ToU. Please look into step 4 in the Shibboleth Service Provider installation instructions below to make your service provider work better with our users within the federation and inter-federations.
4. Integrate SWAMID Metadata into the service provider and optionally configure use of the SWAMID Discovery Service.

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Step 4 - Get your Service Provider's metadata into the SWAMID Metadata stream

When you got your web service ready with a installed and running Service Provider you need to make it easier for the users to use your service. The hardest step is to make the identity providers to release needed attributes to your service. This can be done in two different ways and you need to do them both.

1. Enable automatic attribute release from identity providers with Entity Categories for Service Providers

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2. Contact the identity providers that you've know that you have users from and be sure that they release needed attributes, preferable with an entity category and with a manual release if you need special attributes, ie. entitlements.

Don't forget to enhance user experience with Service Provider Metadata Extensions for Login and Discovery User Interface (MDUI). Look at the example to understand what the MDUI information can do with the user experience.

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