diff --git a/backend/src/main/groovy/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/service/JPAMetadataResolverServiceImpl.groovy b/backend/src/main/groovy/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/service/JPAMetadataResolverServiceImpl.groovy
index aa2d1e7df..b60c9b0c8 100644
--- a/backend/src/main/groovy/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/service/JPAMetadataResolverServiceImpl.groovy
+++ b/backend/src/main/groovy/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/service/JPAMetadataResolverServiceImpl.groovy
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ class JPAMetadataResolverServiceImpl implements MetadataResolverService {
             ) {
                 metadataResolverRepository.findAll().each { edu.internet2.tier.shibboleth.admin.ui.domain.resolvers.MetadataResolver mr ->
                     //TODO: We cannot/do not currently have the code to marshall the internal incommon chaining resolver
-                    if (mr.type != 'BaseMetadataResolver') {
+                    if ((mr.type != 'BaseMetadataResolver') && (mr.enabled)) {
                         constructXmlNodeForResolver(mr, delegate) {
                             MetadataFilter(
                                     'xsi:type': 'SignatureValidation',
diff --git a/backend/src/main/java/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/domain/resolvers/MetadataResolver.java b/backend/src/main/java/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/domain/resolvers/MetadataResolver.java
index ab8eda99f..7d0fc03d1 100644
--- a/backend/src/main/java/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/domain/resolvers/MetadataResolver.java
+++ b/backend/src/main/java/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/domain/resolvers/MetadataResolver.java
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ public class MetadataResolver extends AbstractAuditable {
     @Column(unique = true)
     private String xmlId;
 
+    private Boolean enabled = true;
+
     private Boolean requireValidMetadata = true;
 
     private Boolean failFastInitialization = true;
diff --git a/backend/src/test/groovy/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/service/JPAMetadataResolverServiceImplTests.groovy b/backend/src/test/groovy/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/service/JPAMetadataResolverServiceImplTests.groovy
index 30ad3172a..c6c64e7e1 100644
--- a/backend/src/test/groovy/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/service/JPAMetadataResolverServiceImplTests.groovy
+++ b/backend/src/test/groovy/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/service/JPAMetadataResolverServiceImplTests.groovy
@@ -229,6 +229,19 @@ class JPAMetadataResolverServiceImplTests extends Specification {
         generatedXmlIsTheSameAsExpectedXml('/conf/520.xml', domBuilder.parseText(writer.toString()))
     }
 
+    def 'test generating disabled MetadataResolver xml snippet'() {
+        given: 'disabled metadata resolver'
+        def resolver = testObjectGenerator.filesystemMetadataResolver()
+        resolver.enabled = false
+        metadataResolverRepository.save(resolver)
+
+        when:
+        def generatedXmlDocument = this.metadataResolverService.generateConfiguration()
+
+        then:
+        generatedXmlIsTheSameAsExpectedXml('/conf/670.xml', generatedXmlDocument)
+    }
+
     static genXmlSnippet(MarkupBuilder xml, Closure xmlNodeGenerator) {
         xml.MetadataProvider('id': 'ShibbolethMetadata',
                 'xmlns': 'urn:mace:shibboleth:2.0:metadata',
diff --git a/backend/src/test/resources/conf/670.xml b/backend/src/test/resources/conf/670.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..952c86ee6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/src/test/resources/conf/670.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!-- This file is an EXAMPLE metadata configuration file. -->
+<MetadataProvider id="ShibbolethMetadata" xsi:type="ChainingMetadataProvider"
+                  xmlns="urn:mace:shibboleth:2.0:metadata"
+                  xmlns:resource="urn:mace:shibboleth:2.0:resource"
+                  xmlns:security="urn:mace:shibboleth:2.0:security"
+                  xmlns:md="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:metadata"
+                  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+                  xmlns:saml="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:assertion"
+                  xsi:schemaLocation="urn:mace:shibboleth:2.0:metadata http://shibboleth.net/schema/idp/shibboleth-metadata.xsd urn:mace:shibboleth:2.0:resource http://shibboleth.net/schema/idp/shibboleth-resource.xsd urn:mace:shibboleth:2.0:security http://shibboleth.net/schema/idp/shibboleth-security.xsd urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:metadata http://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/v2.0/saml-schema-metadata-2.0.xsd urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:assertion http://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/v2.0/saml-schema-assertion-2.0.xsd">
+</MetadataProvider>
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