Hi Matthew,
We're not using Shibboleth at the moment but are seriously considering
switching from ADFS to Shib.
Also I thought ProPlus was a brand of caffeine pill? :-)
On 04/11/13 15:20, Matthew Slowe wrote:
> 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
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> 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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