This deck will help you learn the benefits of using WSO2 Identity Server to manage obstacles that arise and demonstrate the easy integration with MS office 365. Watch the on-demand webinar here - https://wso2.com/library/webinars/2019/03/integrating-ms-office-365-with-wso2-identity-server/

1. Integrating MS office 365 with
WSO2 Identity Server
Tharindu Bandara, Software Engineer - WSO2
Pamoda Wimalasiri, Software Engineer - WSO2

2. Presenter
Tharindu Bandara Software Engineer, WSO2
Pamoda Wimalasiri Software Engineer, WSO2
Part of the WSO2 Identity Server team
Focuses on the IAM domain and was one of the initial members who worked on the Office 365
Integration with WSO2 Identity Server.
Holds a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Telecommunication engineering from the University
of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
Part of the WSO2 Identity Server team.
Passionate about the aspects of Identity and Access Management and has been working on
integrating Office 365 with WSO2 Identity Server right from the beginning.
Holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka specializing in
computer science and engineering.

3. WSO2 Identity Server

4. WSO2 Identity Server At-A-Glance
Colombo, London,
Mountain View, New York,
São Paulo, Sydney
500+ Employees
(300 Engineers)
Open Source
525+ Customers,
100+ New Customers in 2018
• Fully Open Source IAM solution
• Inherent extensibility
• 75M+ identities managed worldwide
• 150+ production customers globally
• 500+ educational institutes
• 24X7 support
• Latest Released version IS-5.7.0
Product leader in LC: Access Management and Federation
Innovation leader in Leadership Compass: CIAM

5. Microsoft Office 365

6. What is Microsoft Office 365?
● Cloud based solution for
Microsoft’s widely popular
Office product suite

7. Integrate or Left Behind?
● “By 2021, more than 70% of
businesses will be substantially
provisioned with cloud office
capabilities” -Gartner.com[1]
● Office 365 cloud solution is
heavily integrated with the latest
Office desktop applications
● Microsoft Office is moving
towards a cloud based future
[1] https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/widespread-adoption-of-cloud-office-is-now-well-underway/

8. Integration Hurdle

9. On-Premises and Cloud Applications
● User need to access applications
in both
● Requires user identity to be
present in both

10. Microsoft Approach for Hybrid Identity
● Locked for Active Directory
● Identities are duplicated
● High maintenance cost
● Pushing a userstore
migration to the Azure AD

11. WSO2 Identity Server
To the Rescue!

12. How WSO2 Identity Server Overcomes the
Integration Hurdle
● Can be authenticated with the existing userstore
○ Support Heterogeneous user stores
● Seamless provisioning of user identities to the cloud
○ Role-based user synchronization
● Group based Office 365 license management

13. Heterogeneous
User Store Support

14. No More Vendor Lock-In with WSO2 IS
● Support for JDBC, LDAP and Active Directory user stores OOTB
● Capability for custom user stores
● Connect with Office 365 with the existing user base at ease

15. Role Based
User Synchronization

16. What is Role Based User Synchronization?
● Azure AD connector in WSO2 Identity Server listens to the role
specific to the Office 365 users
● User creation, update and deletion are synced with the Office
365 cloud immediately

17. ● Selective deployment
● Ease of management
Why Role Based?

18. Add Role to Every User?
● System Administrator needs to
be present
● Requires manual effort
● Time consuming

19. Intelligent, On Demand User
Provisioning!

20. On Demand User Provisioning With Adaptive
Authentication
● WSO2 IS OOTB supports Adaptive Authentication
● Controls authentication flow with a simple script
● Let WSO2 IS to assign Office 365 role at the login for existing
users
● Seamless, on-demand user syncing with Azure AD

21. Group Based Office 365
License Management

22. Office 365 Group Based License Management
With WSO2 IS
● Pick any user attribute to map a user for Azure
AD grouping
● Create Azure AD membership rule
● WSO2 IS works with Azure AD to put the user
in to a group
● Happens automatically, no human intervention

23. Recap

24. Office 365 Is Just a Simple Integration with
WSO2 Identity Server
● No infrastructure changes
● Simple integration steps
● Benefits from existing
features
● Minimal time consuming
● Minimal human interaction

25. Benefits From using WSO2 Identity Server
● SSO and SLO with other on-prem and SaaS Apps
● Strong/Multi Factor authentication
● Adaptive Authentication
● Simplified installation

26. Q&A

27. THANK YOU
wso2.com
THANK YOU
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