Sometimes, its nice to be able to skip a step. Most data projects involve data movement before data access. Usually this is not an issue; everyone agrees that the data must be made available before it can be available. There are use cases where the data movement part is a blocker because of time, cost, […]
Posts Tagged ‘federation’
Managing Coexistence & Interop in Microsoft Teams (Part 3)
Welcome back! You’ve made it to the final blog in this series on managing coexistence and interoperability in Microsoft Teams! Last time we discussed in-tenant interop flows. This time we’ll wrap things up by discussing external access/federation and how this differs from coexistence. For those of you coming from the Skype for Business world, you […]
Managing Coexistence and Interop in Microsoft Teams (Part 2)
Welcome back! In part 1 of this blog series we covered at a high level what coexistence and interoperability between Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams involved. This time, we’ll take things a step further by looking at the technical view of interoperability scenarios you’ll need to know in order to implement this in your […]
Managing Coexistence and Interop in Microsoft Teams (Part 1)
One of the biggest concerns when switching from Skype for Business to Teams revolves around the ability for the two products to work together. However, what is often overlooked is what will be required to meet these expectations. Fear not, in this article we’ll be discussing the high level in’s and out’s for interoperability and […]
Federated Authentication with Shibboleth
[su_note note_color=”#fafafa”]I have recently found myself working on a project that needed federated authentication. While intrAnet sites could use SiteMinder agent, extranet sites could only do SAML via something like Shibboleth. Setting up a Service Provider with Shibboleth is fairly straightforward and well documented on their wiki. And it also works like a charm until […]
Lync, XMPP and Google Apps Domain Talk Service Validation Errors
In my original XMPP post, I discussed how to troubleshoot TLS errors relating to Lync and the Microsoft OCS 2007 R2 XMPP gateway. If you believe you’re having TLS related issues, please refer to my previous post. This blog will focus on Lync troubleshooting techniques and Google XMPP responses when establishing federation between the two […]