As announced earlier Microsoft wants to discontinue Windows Live Messenger (still very well known as MSN Messenger) clients in favor of Skype, which was acquired a while ago. Today Microsoft announced they will discontinue support for the famous chat client on March 15th, 2013. Microsoft started to contact...
Earlier this year, Microsoft released an update to ADFS (RU1) which introduced some new features of which Client Access Policies were one. Client Access Policies allow you to restrict access to Office 365 services based on the location (IP) of your clients. To find out more, have a look at the following...
The configuration database is one of the components that make part of an AD Federation Server deployment. It contains all configuration data regarding the Federation Service and includes information the Federation Services needs to identify certificates, claims etc... One of the decisions related to...
Introduction In the first part of this article, we talked about what our lab would look like and prepared everything up to the point where we could install the virtual machines. In this part, we will go through the installation of ADFS and to publish it using the TMG 2010. In order to create our hybrid...
Introduction ADFS 2.0 is amongst others used to provide Single Sign-On capabilities to users in an Office 365 deployment. Basically, when a domain is configured for SSO, Microsoft will – for example when using Outlook - ‘redirect’ all incoming authentication requests to your on-premises ADFS deployment...
Multiple sources on the internet report that Microsoft is close to buy Internet Communications company Skype for about 7 billion USD. Together with the debts Skype currently has, the deal would be worth around 8 billion $: Wall Street Journal Neowin It would be exciting to see how Microsoft would integrate...
Thanks to Filip Van Canneyt for pointing us to this interesting information Office 365 has a really nice Lync Online feature. They say that you can federate your Lync Online to Lync deployments at other companies. Well, that is only partially true. The way Lync works today is that if I have Lync configured...