Background When you run the Hybrid Configuration wizard even in a tenant that uses Federated login, you might find that even if you’ve chosen only one of your federated domains, the redirect URL to Office 365 is set to your tenant domain (onmicrosoft.com) rather than the federated domain you chose in the wizard or would…
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced the next generation of their cloud online services, Office 365. This new suite of online services will offer Exchange Online, Sharepoint Online, Lync Online (the next generation of Office Communications Server) and the desktop Office Professional Plus suite. When it comes to messaging, the next generation of Exchange Online provides…
I’ve just come across a fantastic article by Ken St. Cyr, via BPuhl, that guides through the process of enabling Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 for Exchange 2010 OWA access. As I’m very much into enabling cross-premises deployments (and have built my own solution against On Premises Exchange and the current certificate-based SSO solution for…
PLEASE NOTE: This is NO LONGER supported and provided as-is for information ONLY. The information here relates to pre-Hybrid configurations that used the Consumer MFG. It does give you some background as to how Office 365 does Federation, though some steps have changed. For a modern “under the hood”, see this article. As organizations move to make use…