Pro & Cons of Shibboleth Authentication for Office 365

[Rainer Hoerbe]

> ADFS typically relies on AD, and if you have AD you may use DirSync, which makes provisioning much easier.

What is different in provisioning whether ADFS or Shibboleth consume user data from AD?

> 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.

Do you speak for an enterprise or federation context? I wonder how scaleable ADFS is to operate in an environment requiring SAML metadata. 

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- Rainer
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