diff --git a/nefed.xml b/nefed.xml
index 08fa12278349cb8558ea9edbb3c5430c88a474d7..8857eff8471d04491955b69dfd32f206d5e3c5e7 100644
--- a/nefed.xml
+++ b/nefed.xml
@@ -33388,6 +33388,9 @@
         <AssertionConsumerService Binding="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-Redirect"
             Location="https://universityofne.maps.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/oauth2/saml/signin"
             index="2" />
+        <NameIDFormat>
+            urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:nameid-format:persistent
+        </NameIDFormat>
     </SPSSODescriptor>
     <Organization xml:lang="en">
         <OrganizationName xml:lang="en">University of Nebraska</OrganizationName>