On April 18th, ITS will enable an authentication feature called Seamless Single Sign-on. Once users sign into their workstations with their NetID credentials, Seamless SSO automatically signs in them into their Office 365 applications, including Teams, Edge, and Onedrive.
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.
When you are setting up a new profile, it may take a few minutes for Seamless SSO to sign you into Office 365 applications. You can use the workstation during this setup.
\uD83D\uDCD8 Logging in with and without Seamless SSO
During a first time profile login, below are some of the service experiences:
Onedrive: Without SSO, the 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.
However, with Seamless SSO, Onedrive client opens in the background and silently signs in to begin syncing files in the following order:
Updating Onedrive
Sign in screen
Onedrive after Seamless SSO
Outlook: Without SSO, Outlook profile configuration prompts for email address, 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.
Once you click Connect, Seamless SSO is detected on the account and thereby configures Outlook without prompting for the password.
Edge: Without SSO, if you navigate to http://myapps.microsoft.com from an Edge browser, the page will take you to the login screen for Office 365. With Seamless SSO, this page will immediately take you to the available applications on your Office 365 account without prompting for an email address or password.
Please note that, you can always Sign Out and sign in as another account if you are not looking to use the Seamless SSO feature.