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On In April 18th2022, ITS will enable enabled an authentication feature called Seamless Single Sign-on (SSO). Once users sign into their workstations with their NetID credentials, Seamless SSO automatically signs in them into their Office Microsoft 365 applications, including Teams, Edge, and OnedriveOneDrive.

Existing profiles will not notice this change since these clients have already been configured with a username and password during the initial configuration. If you are signing into a new workstation, including a classroom computer, you will set up a new profile. With Seamless SSO, your new profile will automatically sign into Teams and OneDrive. You will still need to open Outlook, but the email address and password will auto-populate.

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During a first-time profile login, below are some of the service experiences.

OneDrive

Without SSO, the Onedrive OneDrive client currently opens in the background, prompting for an initial sign-in. The user can input their email address and password after which syncing files will begin.

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With Seamless SSO, the Onedrive client opens in the background and begins syncing files in the following order:

  1. The update begins.

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  2. The sign-in screen briefly appears.

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  3. OneDrive begins to automatically update files.

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Outlook

Without SSO, Outlook profile configuration prompts for an email address and then continues to populate the Modern authentication page prompting for the password after which the profile will be configured. However, with SSO, Outlook auto-populates the email address.

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