Troubleshooting ECP

[Cantor, Scott]

On 12/1/14, 5:22 PM, "Dan Malone" <dmalone at calpoly.edu> wrote:

>The logs then show a successful authentication by showing the username 
>and a 500 not found status. We assume the 500 status is because the 
>browser submits a GET request and the profile is expecting a SOAP/ECP 
>POST request.

Likely.

>After adding this parameter, the web based authentication continues to 
>work consistently and we do notice a difference in behavior with the 
>non-web clients.

AFAIK, only Outlook supports the ECP option, that's happening on a mail 
proxy run by MS.


>When attempting to open a document with the desktop version of MS Word, 
>we see the same 401 not authorized as above, also showing the request is 
>coming from WINWORD.EXE.

That won't work with ECP, they don't support it.

>We did find it odd that the ECP request was coming from the desktop IP 
>address. Based on our understanding, and the diagram found here (
>
>http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/unseenit/author/ms1/ 
><http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/unseenit/author/ms1/> ), we assumed the ECP 
>request would come from somewhere in the O365 cloud.

Yes. But only for mail.

-- Scott