Sadly there’s no EWS integration unless you are using Office365. It works pretty much the same as the old Passive authentication which was also based on federation. So what does this mean for Skype for Business? Well, to be honest, not very much. Which in the Microsoft world means AD FS. Modern authentication simply put, is federation. While modern authentication is something that is presented as something new and shiny, the corner stones and the foundation is nothing new. Well, let’s first take a look at what modern authentication is before we start looking at how it works in Skype for Business. So, what is modern authentication and what does it mean for Skype for Business?
You might have seen the acronym ADAL which is the Active Directory Authentication Library which is modern authentication. Especially when it comes to Office 365 and Azure. You have probably heard about modern authentication, there’s a lot of talk about it.
