

" Federated identity, or the 'federation' of identity, describes the technologies, standards and use-cases which serve to enable the portability of identity information across otherwise autonomous security domains. Wikipedia defines identity federation as follows:
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īeginning with the Windows 2000 (Server) platform, the Kerberos-based user identity provided by Active Directory has facilitated secure authorization and single sign-on to Active Directory-aware (Microsoft and non-Microsoft) resources located inside its own and other trusted Active Directory domains/forests.ĪD FS enables identity federation, extending the notion of above centralized authentication, authorization, and single sign-on to Web applications and services located virtually anywhere, and notably in the cloud.

For example, the Shibboleth 2 identity provider can be used in lieu of AD FS as described in the white paper Azure AD/Office 365 Single Sign-On with Shibboleth 2.

Thanks to this program, a list of third-party identity provider solutions is also supported beyond AD FS. Note A Microsoft program named Works with Office 365 – Identity enables to conduct interoperability testing against other third party identity provider solutions. Such an authentication with the single sign-on feature of Azure AD can be provided among other solutions through Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) as a preferred Security Token Service (STS). The users must sign in with their corporate credentials to access their e-mail messages if they are using Outlook or an e-mail client that is not part of Office such as an IMAP or a POP client. Microsoft outlook or other e-mail clients.
