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

Caskey, Paul pcaskey at utsystem.edu
Wed Oct 30 12:05:18 EDT 2013


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.



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> bounces at shibboleth.net] On Behalf Of Steven Carmody
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> Subject: is anyone familiar with microsoft's "Office Pro Plus"
> 
> HI,
> 
> I've been invited to a local meeting to discuss interoperating with "Office Pro
> Plus".
> 
> The info provided so far (by the microsoft reps) includes:
> 
> > Microsoft recently announced that it is offering Office 365 (office
> apps in the cloud) to universities for their students beginning in December.
> 
> > We don't have a lot of detail on this version of the office 365
> offering, but apparently they are offering integration through ADFS, dirsynch
> and maybe one other approach.
> 
> My guess is that this is just a re-branding of Office 365, which can be accessed
> using Shib... but I'm wondering if anyone has any more specific info about
> "Office Pro Plus" than my guess.
> 
> thanks for any info you can share !
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