Opening Part 1 of this series opened with the business aspects of making investments in Workspace ONE and Microsoft 365, as well as how to integrate both platforms for adopting new use cases. Part 2 will cover how to create the unified app catalog, providing each of our personas with an “any app, any device, at any time” experience. This function is what enables the vast array of personas to consume a common set of resources from their preferred platform, all with dynamic forms of single sign-on to maintain a healthy security posture. It’s also one of the four key value adds from Workspace ONE Advanced. Architecture Very quickly, let’s remind ourselves of the architecture we’re working from in this series: To quote the excerpt from Part 1: Take notice that the end users begin consuming various services and applications by first launching the Workspace ONE app catalog, regardless of the federated architecture. The value add from this flow is that our users can go to one location, the Unified App Catalog, to consume any application or resource across the […]
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Workspace ONE and Azure AD: Part 1
Opening Often times when working with customers, I get the impression that there is a strong sense of confusion when discussing the integration of a platform such as Microsoft 365 with 3rd party ecosystems. After all, an investment in M365 comes with many features and functions, so where do platforms like Workspace ONE fit in? My friends, welcome to my day job and one true passion in life. Remember the saying, “do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” This mini-series is aimed at breaking down the often encountered silos so that you can articulate and deliver a best-in-class end user experience using the analogous functions from two best-in-class platforms: Workspace ONE and Azure AD. We’ll briefly cover the major use cases of stitching these two ecosystems together, and why this fabric is critical to adoption and value realization. Note to reader: The scope of this mini-series will be limited to what you are capable of doing with these platforms today. The partnership announcement will most certainly have a positive impact on the below, and […]
#VMworld 2019
EDIT [9/8/19]: Here is the recorded version of our session if you weren’t able to attend: Session Recording Slides Leader board (@lamw) EDIT [8/9/19]: See https://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2019/08/vmworld-workspace-one.html for ‘Can’t Miss’ sessions to register for! It’s that time of year again; #VMworld 2019 is less than 3 weeks away, but the content catalog is live for you to book your conference schedule. A few sessions you might be interested in checking out: Workspace ONE and Azure AD Integration: Deep Dive from the Trenches [DEE2023BU] – Ryan Costello and I will dive deep on how to deliver a rich end-user experience with your investments in Workspace ONE and Azure AD/Office 365. This is 300 level configuration with live demos, so bring your tablets and notebooks! If you’re a fan of my recent post on the WS1 UEM SCIM Adapter fling, come checkout Joe and I give a LIVE DEMO in the Solution Exchange on Wednesday from 10:00AM-12:30PM PST, booth #949. Look for the “Innovation Accelerating Transformation” headline above the kiosks. Sneak peek! Stay tuned here for information on an additional session not yet […]
WS1 UEM SCIM Adapter
Today is an exciting day. It’s my first experience developing a VMware Fling, and it’s is the GA release of what Joe Rainone and I put hours of laborious love into. Identity is not only our day job, but also an area that we are both very passionate about. Our belief is that this Fling, while unsupported, answers a question that many of our customers ask when designing production Workspace ONE deployments. Take a look, play around, and please provide feedback here! What is the Fling about? The SCIM protocol is quickly modeling after what SAML brought to identity management almost 15 years ago: a common way to establish resource identity in a service-to-service architecture. Gone are the days where LDAP and Active Directory are the primary systems of record. This concept is particularly enhanced as EUC platforms like Microsoft Azure, VMware Workspace ONE, and others provide native directory services while maintaining a common identity among themselves and their relying parties. Furthermore, the burden of maintaining ‘connector’-like infrastructure for the sole purpose of identity synchronization not only diminishes the value […]