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Office 365

Introduction

  • Office 365 does not expose any web interface for setting up Single Sign-On, you must issue a few Powershell commands.

  • The following command require a Windows computer with Powershell ≥ 5.0 installed.

Setup Powershell environment

  • Start Powershell as administrator and enter the following command:
Install-Module MSOnline

Connect to Azure AD

  • In Powershell, enter the following command and enter your Office 365 administrator credentials:
connect-msolservice

Change Office federation settings

  • Issue the following command to load the certificate:
$cert = "MIIDXXX...XXXZWCxicZzKAgV"

The contents of the certificat is available on the setup page of your Trustelem application

  • Choose a federation brand name for your organization, for instance:
$FederationBrandName = "mydomain.com"
  • Execute the following commands (adapt the DomainName, the URLs and keep the backquotes characters ` ):
Set-MsolDomainAuthentication -DomainName mydomain.com -Authentication managed
Set-MsolDomainAuthentication       -DomainName mydomain.com `
-FederationBrandName             $FederationBrandName `
-Authentication                  Federated `
-PassiveLogOnUri                 https://mydomain.trustelem.com/app/34XXX/sso `
-SigningCertificate              $cert `
-IssuerUri                       https://mydomain.trustelem.com/app/34XXX/mydomain.com `
-LogOffUri                       https://mydomain.trustelem.com/app/34XXX/slo `
-PreferredAuthenticationProtocol SAMLP

Note for Azure AD users

⚠️Using an external IdP like Trustelem (via SAML) to federate Azure AD / Office 365 for users that exist only in the cloud leads to several critical issues and is strongly discouraged:

  • Azure passwords no longer work — authentication is fully offloaded to the IdP.
  • Users can't be created directly with federated domains — PowerShell is required.
  • Each user needs a manually set onPremisesImmutableId via PowerShell.
  • No automated provisioning, and more complex support.

The consequences are the following:

  • After this setup, your Azure users will not have the possibility to use their Azure AD password anymore : they have to use a Trustelem password instead.
    Go to your Azure AD directory on Trustelem > Enabled Use Trustelem as password source

  • If the synchronized users only exist on an Azure which is not linked to an AD, then you'll need to verify if they have an onPremisesImmutableId. You also need to add this attribute to Trustelem:
    Go to your Azure AD directory on Trustelem > tick Advanced options > enter onPremisesImmutableId in Custom attributes

Powershell script example to add onPremisesImmutableId to existing users:

# Install the Microsoft Graph PowerShell module
Install-Module Microsoft.Graph -Scope CurrentUser

# Connect to Microsoft Graph with the necessary scopes
Connect-MgGraph -Scopes "User.ReadWrite.All", "Directory.AccessAsUser.All"

# Replace with your temporary fallback domain (e.g., yourdomain.onmicrosoft.com)
$tmpUPN = "yourdomain.onmicrosoft.com"

# Retrieve all users who don't have an OnPremisesImmutableId set
$users = Get-MgUser -All | Where-Object { -not $_.OnPremisesImmutableId }

foreach ($user in $users) {
    $currentUPN = $user.UserPrincipalName
    $initialDomain = $currentUPN.Split("@")[1]
    $newUPN = $currentUPN.Replace("@$initialDomain", "@$tmpUPN")

    # Temporarily change UPN to a domain that allows ImmutableId update
    Update-MgUser -UserId $user.Id -UserPrincipalName $newUPN

    # Generate a new unique ImmutableId (Base64-encoded GUID)
    $newImmutableId = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([Guid]::NewGuid().ToByteArray())

    # Assign the ImmutableId to the user
    Update-MgUser -UserId $user.Id -OnPremisesImmutableId $newImmutableId

    # Revert UPN back to the original domain
    Update-MgUser -UserId $user.Id -UserPrincipalName $currentUPN
}

# List users who still don't have an ImmutableId (if any)
$usersWithoutImmutableId = Get-MgUser -All | Where-Object { -not $_.OnPremisesImmutableId } | Select-Object UserPrincipalName

Write-Output "Users without OnPremisesImmutableId:"
$usersWithoutImmutableId.UserPrincipalName

Powershell script example to create a new user with onPremisesImmutableId:

Connect-MgGraph -Scopes "User.ReadWrite.All", "Directory.AccessAsUser.All"

# Password profile as plain hashtable
$passwordProfile = @{
    Password = "TemporaryPassword123!"
    ForceChangePasswordNextSignIn = $true
}

# Build full user creation parameters in a hashtable (sûr et lisible)
$params = @{
    DisplayName      = "Peter Doe"
    GivenName        = "Peter"
    Surname          = "Doe"
    UserPrincipalName = "peter.doe@your_domain.onmicrosoft.com"
    MailNickname     = "peterdoe"
    PasswordProfile  = $passwordProfile
    AccountEnabled   = $true
}

# Create user
$newUser = New-MgUser @params

# If created, assign ImmutableId and switch UPN
if ($newUser -and $newUser.Id) {
    $immutableId = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([Guid]::NewGuid().ToByteArray())
    Update-MgUser -UserId $newUser.Id -OnPremisesImmutableId $immutableId
    Update-MgUser -UserId $newUser.Id -UserPrincipalName "peter.doe@your_federated_domain.fr"
} else {
    Write-Error "User creation failed. Aborting further operations."
}

Disconnect-MgGraph
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