Federated Active Directory Server Integration

[partydrone]

My company has federated its on-premises Active Directory server with Microsoft Office 365 in the cloud. Are there any configuration considerations to take into account when trying to authenticate against it? Is it even supported?

[Arcath]

I don't see any issue with it, from my understanding:

• Office 365 syncs with AD so wont get in the way/cause any issues
• Federated AD runs on top of AD so the normal AD server is still there and you can just point Adauth at it.

[partydrone]

My app no longer has access to the internal AD server, and the current response from the IT department is that it's now federated—so if there's a way for me to authenticate against Office 365, then that's the currently preferred method here. I'm taking a look at the Windows Azure Active Directory Graph API documentation to see what will be involved in integrating directly.…