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NimbostratusExchange 2010 wiht office 365 Integration
Hi,
My customer's requirement is Exchange 2010 with office 365 integration. Kindly share us deployment and design guide.
-Arun
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Hi Arun,
It looks like there are probably several guides you would need to involve and draw upon for information to end up at a design. I am going to assume that you are running a F5 licensed with LTM and APM, and version of at least 11.3.0.
The most common scenario I can think of is to use APM's single-sign-on capabilities using SAML to federate with your organization and Office 365. Luckily, there is an iApp that provides such functionality built into current versions of BIGIP. You can get more information here. https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iapp.BIG-IP-APM-as-SAML-2-0-IdP-for-Microsoft-Office-365.ashx The zip file on that page contains the iApp needed as well as a deployment guide to assist with installation of the IdP that will allow federation with O365.
Also, there is a tool provided by Microsoft that can probably help with some of the architectural decisions called "Exchange Server Deployment Assistant". http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/06/10/exchange-server-deployment-assistant-update-for-exchange-2010-and-office-365-coexistence.aspx
Gavin_Connell-OWe've used this iApp at my organization, and I can confirm it works very well. You definitely don't need ADFS to federate with Office 365 :) If you have any questions, fire them my way, I'll be happy to help if I can.
swo0sh_gt_13163Altostratus
Hello Gavin, Can you tell me which iApp template you've used to get rid out of this issue? Thank you, Darshan
andrew_c_102227Gavinc,
Did this iApp work with Acivesync and the Outlook client out of the box.
We have a Office 365 deployment and used ADFS this worked for Active Sync, outlook client and web log in.
The F5 is now being used as an IDP and only the weblog in works.
Are there any changes that need to be made to enable AS and the client to work?
- Gavin_Connell-O
Hi Andrew,
Yes the iApp works with Exchange Active Sync and Outlook.
What sort of architecture do you have? Standalone Office 365 or a hybrid deployment? I've got two environments here, one is standalone, and one a hybrid with Exchange 2010, and they both work fine with all clients. Your configuration with depend on your environments particulars of course though.
Cheers,
Gavin
