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I am getting this message on my App Store Connect:

Your account will soon need to be migrated to federated auth. You can start the process now or wait until August 28, 2020 for your account to be migrated automatically.

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If I click on "Start the process now", then getting this:

{"data":null,"messages":{"warn":null,"error":["Not Found"],"info":null},"statusCode":"ERROR"}

And when I click on "Learn More", Safari can't open the page for me. It is giving this:

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So can any of you please tell me what is this all about?

TylerH
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Tulon
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    Thanks, this really looks like a mistake by apple. Two broken links and not much more information... weird! – luk2302 Aug 20 '20 at 08:04
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    Strangely there's not a single post on internet regarding this! Which was more wired to me. :/ – Tulon Aug 20 '20 at 08:05
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    Probably because they *just* accidentally released something or toggled the wrong switch. There is already a second SO question regarding this (linked) meaning you are not alone (and a lot of upvotes on this q). I guess it will either be fixed to have proper links in the coming hours or the warning will be removed entirely. – luk2302 Aug 20 '20 at 08:07
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    Just wanted to warn you about the "Safari Can't find this page" screen shot you've shared. This contains some kind of token, I don't know what it's used for but it seems to be some kind of SSO authentication token. Be careful what you share. – Jeffrey Lanters Aug 20 '20 at 09:53
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    @JeffreyLanters I thought the same thing and checked: it appears to be a SAML request and those typically do not contain any sensitive information ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38111061/is-there-any-confidential-information-held-in-a-samlrequest ) – luk2302 Aug 20 '20 at 09:56
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    In the morning while I was posting this I hadn't the slightest idea that this question is going to be as popular where it will get 100+ upvotes and more than 5k+ views within 10 hours. I got more than 10 emails from different people asking about this and that. Thanks for all of your support and suggestions. I hope nothing bad happens to anyone. And Kudos to Apple's support, It just likes having a build on Xcode after cleaning the project. – Tulon Aug 20 '20 at 18:02

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Looks like broken deploy on Apple’s end where they accidentally rolled out an internal page to third-party developers. AppleConnect and Quip are used internally so it’s not surprising to see them mentioned. (The link that is failing to load is behind Apple’s corporate VPN.)

saagarjha
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I have contacted Apple Support on phone and they assure me that it is not for developers accounts and I should just ignore it as it is related to Apple Business Manager. And as a confirmation they sent an e-mail to confirm it with some links to help with understanding more about it.

https://support.apple.com/en-ie/guide/apple-business-manager/intro-to-federated-authentication-apdb19317543/web

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I think it was a bug. Right now when I log in to my App Store Connect, I am not seeing any related error or message on the top portion of my portal. It simply got vanished.

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Tulon
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    Well, that is what was expected. They got the message and backtracked, instead of this support BS they gave previously suggesting to "just ignore it". Good to see. – luk2302 Aug 20 '20 at 16:16
  • Exactly. They didn't acknowledge that it was a bug on their platform. Just technically told us to avoid it. Which is, I don't know what to say. – Tulon Aug 20 '20 at 16:19
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    Yes it's true the message have disappear, guess our complains finally get the point. – Ahmed El-Bermawy Aug 20 '20 at 20:55