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dkemper_258780
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusOffice 365 Hybrid "thick" clients, totally replace ADFS (not just ADFS Proxy)
Goal: Hybrid Setup with Office 365, no p/w in cloud. Status. Set up (w/Big IP APM) and works great except for thick clients. Does the most recent iApp for ADFS or iApp for office 365 allow thick clie...
Yes, this solution is fully supported using Office 365 thick client apps and APM as SAML IdP, so it's not necessary to transmit your AD user passwords to Microsoft.
This post has more information:
https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/office-365s-new-quotmodern-auth-quot
dkemper_258780Nimbostratus
NimbostratusRight, cool. I got the gist. I've learned in the interim that neither the adfs iApp nor the O365 iApp will get me all the way there (no "Easy-Button"), BUT that a manually coded policy will be able to do that once I figure it out. We already have one that works for all office, it's now a matter of technique-- and terms. e.g. Microsoft refers to a mexurl and I think they really mean metadata url. It's also not perfectly clear where I get the appropriate mexurl from and where I need to input that data.
I'm thinking that I might be able only to modify the existing policy that lets all other office apps and IE work with O365, but not sure where to start.