Microsoft Lync authentication issue

[Matthew Slowe]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 08:43:05AM -0700, Akiko wrote:
> After we federated Shibboleth to O365 (bypassing ADFS), our Lync clients keep
> prompting for credentials. Outlook clients and OWA are working perfectly
> with Shibboleth authentication. Do we have to have ADFS?  We have
> exchange-online and lync on premise.  
> I am very confused.

Lync (and other non-web "Apps" such as Word) do not (yet) work with
Shibboleth. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj205456.aspx
for more details.

However, there was an announcement last week from Microsoft suggesting that this
was all going to change soon:

http://blogs.office.com/2014/03/06/announcing-support-for-saml-2-0-federation-with-office-365/

Hope that helps,
-- 
Matthew Slowe
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