Office 365, Student Advantage and Shibboleth Question

[Rob Gorrell]

Ah, but the Office 2011 for the Mac already supports passive SAML
authentication, even pre-Nov and all this ADAL talk. I know it sounds odd,
but we were told this is one of the cases where the Mac product team was on
a different path already and ahead of the Windows team. Of course, there is
no Office On Demand for the Mac versions, but we have been using the
downloadable O365 Pro Plus version of 2011 and activating against SAML no
problems.

-Rob


On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Schwoerer, Brad <schwoerb at uww.edu> wrote:

> Even though they keep talking about the updates, one of the biggest pieces
> for Student Advantage / Office365 ProPlus is that the Mac version is
> ancient.  I honestly don't see them rolling out the necessary fix for the
> old Mac installer and instead will just wait until the new version of
> Office for Mac is released sometime in late 2015? maybe 2016?
>
> -Bradley
>
>
> From: Rob Gorrell <rwgorrel at uncg.edu<mailto:rwgorrel at uncg.edu>>
> Reply-To: Users Shib <users at shibboleth.net<mailto:users at shibboleth.net>>
> Date: Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 11:35 AM
> To: Users Shib <users at shibboleth.net<mailto:users at shibboleth.net>>
> Subject: Re: Office 365, Student Advantage and Shibboleth Question
>
> The picture thats being slowly painted for us by Microsoft seems to be
> that necessary client software updates have already been released as part
> of the 'Nov office updates and are there dormant. Apparently their usage
> currently requires the ADAL features be both enabled on the client machine
> and on the Office 365 tenant even though the official O365 roadmap has
> listed passive SAML auth as "rolling out" since Nov. Even more so, MS seems
> to only be providing those instructions and activating ADAL for tenants
> enrolled to the Private Preview Program which has been capped lately but we
> may finally make it into.
>
> What strikes me as most odd is the very public "rolling out" status on the
> roadmap while simultaneously being told some parts are still only available
> to the private preview.
>
> In the meantime, we continue to push MS as we've held off, hoped, and told
> our clients we're waiting on a pure SAML deployment for all that we offer
> inside O365.
>
> -Rob
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Nate Klingenstein <ndk at internet2.edu
> <mailto:ndk at internet2.edu>> wrote:
> Rob & All,
>
> I just wanted to let you know that these concerns have been relayed to the
> NET+ Office 365 team, so hopefully with some of their contacts, we’ll see
> resolution sooner rather than later.
>
> Thanks for flagging this,
> Nate.
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