All,
Apologies for cross-posting this. For those of you who use Office365 with Shibboleth as the federation model and aren’t on the (rather new) Office365-Managers list, could you take a moment to read the below?
Thanks,
Matthew
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> From: Matthew Slowe <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [OFFICE365-MANAGERS] Office "ProPlus" and Shibboleth
> Date: 1 November 2013 12:45:14 GMT
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:28:21PM +0100, Matthew Slowe wrote:
>> Afternoon all,
>>
>> Does any one have any idea if the forthcoming Office ProPlus
>> service (free-for-all) works if one is federating using Shibboleth
>> rather than ADFS?
>>
>> A colleague recently asked an MSFT (I suspect) Sales guy and he
>> apparently mumbled something "of course it will" but I have my
>> suspicions given than Lync and Office+Sharepoint integration don't.
>
> Having spoken to James at MSFT, it seems that my fears were correct in
> that Office ProPlus will not be supported with Shibboleth as a
> Federation model.
>
> He has asked for some indication from the community as to how many users
> this is likely to affect so that a case can, potentially, be made for
> getting this looked at.
>
> While on the subject, some indication of who is using Shibboleth and
> wanting to use the other unsupported systems (Lync, Sharepoint
> integration...) but unable to do so because of this limitation might be
> useful, too :)
>
> If you'd rather not email the list directly, please just send it to me
> and I'll collate any responses I get before next Friday (8-Nov) for
> James.
>
>
> For us, I'd estimate the affected user count on both sides to be in the
> region of 25,000.
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Matthew Slowe
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