Resources for Configuring Federated ADFS Authentication to Office 365

Recently I’ve successfully integrated a local Active Directory to Office 365 through ADFS.  This was more a proof of concept than a production configuration.

While there are many emerging resources about this integration, the configuration of ADFS, local UPN suffixes, powershell modules, Microsoft Online directory sync, SSO, and other pieces can be a pain.   Since there are so many pieces, dependencies, and documentation to read through, I had to contact Office 365 support.  They were helpful in providing me a few resources which I will share in a moment, but ultimately referred me to their consulting division as they do not support the on-premise ADFS configuration.

Here are the resources they sent over:

#1 – A fantastic 50 minute video titled “Complete Setup Details for Federated Identity Access from On-premise AD to Office 365” by Steve Plank

#2 – A list of links to online documentation

AD FS 2.0 TechNet Article

AD FS (Product Information)

Office 365: Identity and Access Solutions (Microsoft Tech Ed Online)

Office 365 community (http://community.office365.com)

Plan for and deploy Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 for use with single sign-on