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ali ali
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Dec 25, 2017
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Office 365 and ADFS

Hello, i have a question.we are using authentication to our Office 365 tenant via ADFS.if the ADFS is down , could the users can authenticate to our Tenant ? what are the interest to use ADFS for...
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    NunoAriasSilva
    Dec 25, 2017

    Hi ali,

     

    If your ADFS is down you have to convert your Tenant from Federated to Standard and have AD Connect configured to sync with password.

     

    Is not automatic and have manual process that can take time, but is a backup solution.

     

    Many organization need ADFS regarding the security reasons to do not authenticate directly on Office 365 and now is a choice of organizations, in the past was not possible to synchronize passwords and ADFS was the solution, now you have the option to decide. Please read this article https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/pie/2017/02/06/do-i-really-need-adfs/

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NunoAriasSilva
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Dec 25, 2017

Hi ali,

 

If your ADFS is down you have to convert your Tenant from Federated to Standard and have AD Connect configured to sync with password.

 

Is not automatic and have manual process that can take time, but is a backup solution.

 

Many organization need ADFS regarding the security reasons to do not authenticate directly on Office 365 and now is a choice of organizations, in the past was not possible to synchronize passwords and ADFS was the solution, now you have the option to decide. Please read this article https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/pie/2017/02/06/do-i-really-need-adfs/

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ali ali
Brass Contributor
Dec 25, 2017

thanks that helps me.

 

Regards