Pro & Cons of Shibboleth Authentication for Office 365

[Ryan Suarez]

On 13-05-24 4:05 AM, Mauro Minella wrote:
>
> 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.
>

We were never comfortable with DirSync, not fully understanding how and 
what it was syncing to the cloud.  We use powershell to automate and 
fully control user provisioning.

As for better support, don't get me started...
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