The connector for Microsoft Office 365 provides automated provisioning of accounts from the identity sources to Office 365. The connector also provides federated single sign-on access to Office 365 through CloudAccess. The connector allows CloudAccess to authenticate a user against your identity sources and to share this authentication with Office 365 in order to establish the user’s session. The connector supports the SAML 2.0 protocol or the WS-Federation protocol for federated SSO.
With WS-Federation, the connector supports federated single sign-on natively from a Microsoft Lync client or a Lync mobile app for iOS and Android devices. The user must install and configure the NetIQ MobileAccess app and the Lync app to allow this interaction on a mobile device. The user signs in on the Lync login page as usual. The redirection to CloudAccess for authentication and service access is transparent for the user.
CloudAccess includes this connector with the appliance. However, the connector does not appear automatically in the Applications palette of the Admin page. You must run the connector for Office 365 installer on your Windows Management Server in order to connect the web application to CloudAccess.
IMPORTANT:The connector for Office 365 is a CloudAccess-only feature and is not included in the MobileAccess-only license. For more information, see Understanding Product Licensing
in the NetIQ® CloudAccess and MobileAccess Installation and Configuration Guide.
Each cluster supports multiple instances of the connector for Office 365, but each connector must serve a unique domain.