The shortcut URL aka.ms/SSOProviders links to the ‘Works With Office 365’ Identity program, and lists the identity providers that have been qualified with Office 365. In addition to this there are a variety of qualified third party identity providers that can be connected with Office 365 to provide the necessary plumbing for federation. This feature is in preview at the time of writing.ĪD FS is the primary choice for customers who want to use federated identities with Office 365. When the authentication request is presented to Office 365, the service will then contact the on-premises AD FS infrastructure so that AD is responsible for authenticating the request.Ĭurrently there is an upcoming feature which is called Azure AD Pass-through Authentication. Federated Identity – Federation relies on directory synchronisation so that Azure AD is populated.
