Hi George,
Referring to the "String or binary data would be truncated" error, during the time that I was debugging the app, I found my issue on this server action:

were in the Username from Azure is longer than the External_Id field. Since I was just doing some proof of concept for my team, I didn't bother doing some adjustments with the said field.
If you will uncheck the "Automatic User Provision", the creation will be skipped.
Also, I didn't come to a point to open the SAML component in the integration studio.
Thank you and kind regards.
Chris