authn for O365 desktop applications

[Cantor, Scott]

On 6/12/14, 1:12 PM, "Rob Gorrell" <rwgorrel at uncg.edu> wrote:

>I just got done going through the implementation guide and technet
>articles to hook our shibb idp up against our Office 365 domain. And
>while its great to have SSO against the web portal/web apps, I've
>understood we don't have parity between SAML and WS Fed in all aspects of
>O365, but heard several times to expect that to occur in "late 2014".
>Specifically what I'm curious about is the the ProPlus licensing
>activation for the desktop apps and the Lync desktop client. Does anyone
>know more about this? I know with adding ECP we pick up the Outlook
>desktop client and mobile clients... Does anyone know if the future
>solution for the desktop apps and client client will require ECP or be
>something else?

They have claimed it will now be web based and support SAML in the future,
but I don't know if that's true or when. It's not going to be ECP, it will
be a browser hack.

-- Scott