LOL, that is what I told the Office 365 guys at tech ed last week
too....BOLLOCKs!  but they still gave me an invite to their reception....

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]>wrote:

>  You don’t need a separate machine for either dirsync or adfs. It is,
> indeed, recommended. It’s also recommend to have a load-balanced adfs
> proxy, but for 99.99% of clients, that is just bollocks.****
>
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>
> *From:* Christopher Bodnar [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 27, 2012 10:28 AM
>
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Office 365 and AD synchronization****
>
> ** **
>
> Getting ready to migrate a small office environment to office 365. Domain
> is 2008 R2, only 10 users. I'm reading through all the documentation and
> specifically looking at the requirement for a separate machine to host the
> Directory Synchronization tool. Anyone here do this yet with a small
> office? Just curious as to the load on the box. I'm going to create a VM
> for this but see that the minimum requirements are 4G RAM and 70G of disk
> space. That seems high to me for something like this in a very small
> environment. Curious to hear what others have seen after doing this in a
> similar environment.
>
> Also just starting to read about single sign-on. So using the AD Sync tool
> doesn't give you single-sign on? It just gets your users and groups up to
> Office 365? For what purpose, if the credentials are synched? That's what I
> don't understand yet, but I'm not done reading yet, so maybe that will
> come. So if you need AD FS for single sign-on, how was the process?
>
> Thanks, ** **
>
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