Pro & Cons of Shibboleth Authentication for Office 365

[Mauro Minella]

ADFS typically relies on AD, and if you have AD you may use DirSync, which makes provisioning much easier.
Shibboleth may rely on AD as well, but in this case I see no reasons to use Shibboleth rather than ADFS, which gets better support (free for schools/universities), is easier to setup, and fully supports Lync clients which is currently are supported by Shibboleth.
Shibboleth is actually more challenging to configure, but it works well for passive authentication (OWA/SharePoint) and active clients (Outlook 2007/2010/2013) via ECP, and IMAPs/POPs clients: more details on http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzp167WWyvMLpvQeNeurJzbF6yPOeadOS&feature=em-share_playlist_user

Mauro
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