No. of Shibboleth servers required for 6, 00, 000 users to authenticate.

[Brian Arkills]

When you say Microsoft, should I presume you mean Microsoft as a relying party/service provider? Or as an operating system (as in Windows Phone 8)? Or as an IdP/STS (as in ACS and/or ADFS)? Or as something else?

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> From: users-bounces at shibboleth.net [mailto:users-
> bounces at shibboleth.net] On Behalf Of Nate Klingenstein
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 7:18 PM
> To: Shib Users
> Subject: Re: No. of Shibboleth servers required for 6, 00, 000 users to
> authenticate.
> 
> That's a great point and resource considering Office 365 is the intended
> application, thanks.
> 
> The one thing I'd add to your response is that Microsoft has a very unique
> perspective on mobile client due to some implementation choices -- that is to
> say, they batter an IdP with requests.
> 
> I've heard of millions of assertions issued per day is not unusual for the
> modest-sized deployment mentioned for organizations that use Office 365
> with mobile devices.
> 
> There's nothing inherent to mobile devices or protocols that would make the
> load greater, and typical application implementations may even lead to
> reduced IdP load as a session persists for much longer.
> 
> On Jun 11, 2013, at 1:38 , Randy Wiemer wrote:
> 
> > Microsoft has produced a capacity planning spreadsheet for Office 365 and
> ADFS.  The most interesting aspect to consider is the use of mobile devices.
> They behave very differently from browsers.
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2278
> >
> > You may find this relevant for sizing Shibboleth.
> >
> > Randy
> >
> 
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