Whiteboard video: How ADFS and the Microsoft Federation Gateway work together up in the Office 365 Cloud.

re: Whiteboard video: How ADFS and the Microsoft Federation Gateway work together up in the Office 365 Cloud.

Exioo — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:39:37 GMT

Where can we find a video with Outlook client ?

re: Whiteboard video: How ADFS and the Microsoft Federation Gateway work together up in the Office 365 Cloud.

Punit Acharya — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 08:41:53 GMT

Thanks for the great post. And yes thanks for describing the work flow under shady MFG/ADFC transcations.

re: Whiteboard video: How ADFS and the Microsoft Federation Gateway work together up in the Office 365 Cloud.

Ramu — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:50:02 GMT

Hi,

is office 365 exchange online outlook web access support third party multifactor authentication?

thanks

Ramu

re: Whiteboard video: How ADFS and the Microsoft Federation Gateway work together up in the Office 365 Cloud.

paulb32 — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:25:59 GMT

Great video - really helped me get a better understanding of authenticating with Office 365. I tried to blog on the process and to be honest your video is much clearer. Thanks for the great post. - paul

blog.sharepointsite.co.uk/.../mapping-internal-users-ldap-to-cloud.html

re: Whiteboard video: How ADFS and the Microsoft Federation Gateway work together up in the Office 365 Cloud.

...Planky — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:37:12 GMT

Hi Stephen.

It wouldn't be supported, but let's just think about the "theory" for a moment. They are powrshell scripts that set up the ADFS and Office 365 services. So a "trick" might be to set up ADFS with the same endpoint names, certificates etc that you'd use on your third party IP. Then use the powershell scripts to configure ADFS and create a federated domain in Office365.

Next - de-install ADFS2. Install the third party IP with the same endpoint names, certs, config (which you could get from the FederationMetadata.xml doc that ADFS publishes)/

I would think therefore that Office 365 wouldn't know it was no longer talking to ADFS. As long as the third party IP did WS-Federation the same way that ADFS does it. You'd have to look carfully at the configuration and the claims that are pushed out by the ADFS server and make sure you replicate the same configuration on your third-party IP box.

There is no way this would be supported, but it might work. It'd be an interesting experiment. You could end up in the awkward situation where it works for 2 years then fails. You log a support call and they say "sorry, it's not a supported configuration".

You could then install and configure ADFS and if it still failed, it would then be in a supported configuration and you'd get help. However, the awkward area for you is if you install ADFS and that fixes the problem. Then the only thing you can say is that the third-party IP doesn't work in that configuration. Maybe a service pack broke it or something along those lines. All of this scenario sounds like several days offline to me. Something that would be unacceptable for email in most companies...

Good luck - if you try it, please let us know. I'd personally be very interested to see it...

re: Whiteboard video: How ADFS and the Microsoft Federation Gateway work together up in the Office 365 Cloud.

Stephen — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:23:26 GMT

Steve - Do you know if MFG/Office365 works with a non-ADFS/AD setup - ie. have Office 365 federate with a third-party identity provider?

re: Whiteboard video: How ADFS and the Microsoft Federation Gateway work together up in the Office 365 Cloud.

Planky — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:35:57 GMT

Thanks John - glad you found it helpful...

re: Whiteboard video: How ADFS and the Microsoft Federation Gateway work together up in the Office 365 Cloud.

John Smith — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:38:01 GMT

Thanks for the video, yes this was VERY helpful! There is not a lot of information on ADFS pertaining to how it actually works.

Again, thank you for taking the time to create this

John