Integrating Collaboration Suite, Oracle Portal and E-Business to SSO

Hello,
I am in the middle of integrating several Oracle applications and one non-Oracle application to an Identity Management fresh installation.
I found the procedure to integrate E-Business to SSO, with bi-directional provisioning, but I am stuck with the integration of the next applications, Oracle Collaboration Suite and Oracle Portal:
1. How to integrate them to my new SSO Server? is it enough with the ssoreg.sh script?
2. What happens to the users? do I have to manually import them into my new SSO/OID install?
3. What happens with new users? how do they get created? are they now created in the new SSO/OID server?
If someone has had any experience with this kind of tasks, I will really appreciate your feedback. Thanks in advance.

You might ask this question in the Streams forum. You might ask it in the e-Business Suite forum. You might ask it at metalink. But asking it here is not likely to get you the definitive answer you need. I would make sure, before I made such a business decision, I heard it directly from Oracle Support Services.

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