Office 365 now supports Password Synchronization as a temporary backup for Single Sign-On (federation). From the TechNet Wiki, “At General Availability, the Password Synchronization feature did not support the synchronization of passwords for users in a Federated namespace. We have recently updated the service code to allow this. This enables the added possibility of running Password Sync while…
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Update the Live@edu SSO Toolkit to maintain single sign-on access on Office 365 Education
** Update October 8, 2014 ** Please check the Office 365 Message Center for the most recent information on support for the Live@edu SSO Toolkit 4.5 Update in Office 365. The Message Center, inside the Office 365 admin center, is the best way to stay informed about updates to your Office 365 service. The Message…
Customising Your AD FS 2.0 Sign-in Pages
If you’re deploying Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 in your institution to enable single sign-on you might want to customize the default look and feel with some custom text, logos and colours to make it fit in with your brand and to make it more familiar to your users. Or just something different from the…
Customer Story: Achieving consistent SSO with AD FS 2.0 and Office 365 for education
AD FS 2.0 offers institutions who are deploying Office 365 for education a really rich and effective way to provide a single sign-on experience to users. With just one set of credentials teachers and pupils can access the full range of resources that Office 365 for education has to offer. For some institutions there are…
Questions about ADFS and Single Sign On (SSO) with Office 365 for Education
I had several ADFS and Single Sign On (SSO) questions from a large university in northern California proceeding with Office 365 for Education for faculty, staff and students. What servers do I need to accommodate single sign on (SSO) aka Federated ID? The following on premises servers are needed to accommodate SSO with Office…