Federated Active Directory Server Integration

Arcath / Adauth

A Ruby interface for Microsoft's Active Directory based off ruby-net-ldap

http://adauth.arcath.net

MIT License

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Federated Active Directory Server Integration #46

Open partydrone opened 10 years ago

partydrone commented 10 years ago

My company has federated its on-premises Active Directory server with Microsoft Office 365 in the cloud. Are there any configuration considerations to take into account when trying to authenticate against it? Is it even supported?

Arcath commented 10 years ago

I don't see any issue with it, from my understanding:

Office 365 syncs with AD so wont get in the way/cause any issues
Federated AD runs on top of AD so the normal AD server is still there and you can just point Adauth at it.

partydrone commented 10 years ago

My app no longer has access to the internal AD server, and the current response from the IT department is that it's now federated—so if there's a way for me to authenticate against Office 365, then that's the currently preferred method here. I'm taking a look at the Windows Azure Active Directory Graph API documentation to see what will be involved in integrating directly.…