"We are pleased that federation between VIS for Office 365 and Microsoft 365 has been verified and found to be inter-operable so that our customers can take advantage of this solution."
- Vijay Kumar,Read More
The Virtual Identity Server (VIS) extends Office 365 with powerful multi-forest, multi-platform, two-factor authentication and Denial of Service prevention/detection capabilities. There are many barriers to Office 365 adoption, particularly for organizations working in multi-forest Active Directory environments. VIS makes Active Directory integration for Office 365 easy, providing rapid cloud deployment and slashing implementation times from multiple months to days.
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Microsoft’s Office 365 allows you access to cloud-based email, web conferencing, file sharing and Office applications for a flat monthly cost, eliminating the need for on-premise servers to provide this functionality. For many enterprises, the move to the cloud is a slow and difficult process taking months to complete. 
Whether you have multiple Active Directory (AD) Forests or use a directory such as Novell’s e-Directory, VIS for Office 365 can quickly and easily take your users to the cloud wherever they reside. VIS for Office 365 is a complete end-to-end solution for synching users/groups, filtering or translating data as it is synched (and during authentication), and implementing complete audit logging and denial of service (DoS) capabilities. VIS for Office 365’s federation components provide out of the box two-factor, claims-based authentication to Office 365. They also provide customers who otherwise couldn’t go to the cloud (e.g. eDirectory or multi-forest users) a fast and easy path for doing so, with point and click wizard interfaces.
Optimal IdM’s Virtual Identity Server (VIS) provides seamless claims-based authentication for Office 365. Designed for today’s enterprise operations, there’s no better tool for extending Office 365 with powerful multi-forest, multi-platform, two-factor authentication and Denial of Service prevention/detection capabilities.
By creating a claims-based Windows identity, Virtual Identity Server for Office 365 can help you answer questions such as:
– Who has logged in and when?
– What changes were made to data and when?
– Who was added to the Administrators group today?
Rapidly and easily deploy applications to users existing in multiple Active Directory forests or directories.
– The VIS Schema Manager™ eliminates the need to extend the Active Directory schema for third party LDAP applications.
– VIS allows you to rapidly deploy applications to users existing in multiple Active Directory Forests without any forest trusts.
– VIS simplifies your identity management deployment by accessing data at its source directly.
– VIS provides multiple views of data, allowing for easy discreet application views of enterprise data.
Virtual Identity Server increases the value of your existing Microsoft environment. When used in a multi-forest Office 365 environment, VIS:
– Leverages the existing investment in Microsoft technology, extending it with increased functionality.
– Is developed in .NET technology and is designed to seamless integrate with your Microsoft environment.
– Is a platform that continues to grow with an organization’s needs.
– Has proven solutions for Microsoft applications such as SharePoint and MIIS/ILM.
VIS for Office 365 also supports customers with either non-routable domains for a User Principal Name such as JoeUser@Optimal.local or multiple UPN suffixes. VIS for Office 365 handles this on-the-fly by translating on the out-bound synch and as the user authenticates to Office 365, with no data changes required in Active Directory. Get to the cloud faster, with additional features and functionality with VIS’ Office 365 federation services.
Non-Routable domains in UPN’s VIS for Office 365 also supports customers with either non-routable domains for a User Principal Name such as JoeUser@Optimal.local or multiple UPN suffixes. VIS for Office 365 handles this on-the-fly by translating on the out-bound synch and as the user authenticates to Office 365, with no data changes required in Active Directory.
Two-Factor Authentication enables strong authentication to Office 365 applications, using common two-factor authentication methods such as: client certificates, SMS/Phone, SecurID, or other methods with the built-in extensible framework.
Additionally, alerts/emails can be triggered to notify administrators that there has been an incident.
With Office 365 alone, all users and groups are synchronized to the cloud. Built-in Cloud Firewall allows administrators to filter out and decide what data is synchronized to the cloud.
Yes, VIS supports Kerberos, NTLM and Negotiate as authentication options for Office 365 on both the listing side as well as the back-end connection sides.
Yes. Please fill out a demo form with your contact information.
The Virtual Identity Server supports a number of data stores directly with out of the box adapters. Additionally, a customer or integrator can create adapters utilizing our built-in extensibility. [wpex more= “Read more” less= “Read less”]
Yes. Our software is running in both non-secure and secure government networks.
