is anyone familiar with microsoft's "Office Pro Plus"

[Matthew Slowe]

On 30 Oct 2013, at 16:13, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:

> On 10/30/13, 12:05 PM, "Caskey, Paul" <pcaskey at utsystem.edu> wrote:
> 
>> It is like Lync in that is uses WS-Trust not WS-Fed, so I think that
>> means no shibb interop.
>> 
>> When I spoke to Msft at EDUCAUSE, they seemed certain about it not
>> working with shibb.
> 
> That would follow. Nor interop with anything unwilling to reverse engineer
> their code seeing as they have not published anything about how it should
> be implemented. Happy to be corrected on that.
> 
> We aren't unwilling to put a WS-Trust capability on the roadmap, but we're
> not going to implement proprietary profiles without clear change
> management. We won't chase their code.
> 
> Which is what I told Microsoft, so I'm just repeating it here for
> consistency/transparency.

Apologies for cross-posting this. For those of you who use Office365 with Shibboleth as the federation model and aren’t on the (rather new and predominantly UK based) Office365-Managers JISCMail list, could you take a moment to read the below? Our MSFT point of contact is looking to establish a estimate of "user impact" so a business case can possibly be drafted to hopefully get this looked it.

Thanks,
Matthew

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Matthew Slowe <m.slowe at kent.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [OFFICE365-MANAGERS] Office "ProPlus" and Shibboleth
> Date: 1 November 2013 12:45:14 GMT
> To: <OFFICE365-MANAGERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> 
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:28:21PM +0100, Matthew Slowe wrote:
>> Afternoon all,
>> 
>> Does any one have any idea if the forthcoming Office ProPlus
>> service (free-for-all) works if one is federating using Shibboleth
>> rather than ADFS?
>> 
>> A colleague recently asked an MSFT (I suspect) Sales guy and he
>> apparently mumbled something "of course it will" but I have my
>> suspicions given than Lync and Office+Sharepoint integration don't.
> 
> Having spoken to James at MSFT, it seems that my fears were correct in
> that Office ProPlus will not be supported with Shibboleth as a
> Federation model.
> 
> He has asked for some indication from the community as to how many users
> this is likely to affect so that a case can, potentially, be made for
> getting this looked at.
> 
> While on the subject, some indication of who is using Shibboleth and
> wanting to use the other unsupported systems (Lync, Sharepoint
> integration...) but unable to do so because of this limitation might be
> useful, too :)
> 
> If you'd rather not email the list directly, please just send it to me
> and I'll collate any responses I get before next Friday (8-Nov) for
> James.

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Matthew Slowe
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