Azure AD Authentication with NextCloud

[scottalanmiller]

Has anyone tried this or has NextCloud looked into it at all? I'd love to see NextCloud able to talk to Azure AD so that we can integrate with Office 365. Would be perfect for a lot of small businesses.

[thwr]

@scottalanmiller said in Azure AD Authentication with NextCloud:

Has anyone tried this or has NextCloud looked into it at all? I'd love to see NextCloud able to talk to Azure AD so that we can integrate with Office 365. Would be perfect for a lot of small businesses.

Have you seen this?
https://docs.nextcloud.org/server/9/admin_manual/configuration_user/user_auth_ldap.html

Nextcloud ships with an LDAP application to allow LDAP users (including Active Directory) to appear in your Nextcloud user listings. These users will authenticate to Nextcloud with their LDAP credentials, so you don’t have to create separate Nextcloud user accounts for them. You will manage their Nextcloud group memberships, quotas, and sharing permissions just like any other Nextcloud user. Note: The PHP LDAP module is required; this is supplied by php5-ldap on Debian/Ubuntu, and php-ldap on CentOS/Red Hat/Fedora. PHP 5.4+ is required in Nextcloud 8.1.

So this is PHP-LDAP, a quick google search leads to a few topics over at SO:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38186092/authenticate-users-against-azure-active-directory-from-php-web-application
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19562291/use-windows-azure-active-dirctory-for-apache-ldap-authentication

Reply from there:

So no, that doesn't seem to work right now because Azure AD doesn't allow LDAP at all at the moment. NextCloud either needs to implement OAuth2 for Azure auths or we have to wait till Microsoft allows LDAP

[Jstear]

Another thing that would be huge for businesses is NextCloud with Backblaze B2 storage.

[travisdh1]

@Jstear said in Azure AD Authentication with NextCloud:

Another thing that would be huge for businesses is NextCloud with Backblaze B2 storage.

Couldn't you already do that? Mount the B2 storage on a VPS with NextCloud installed.

[Jstear]

@travisdh1 possibly, but I would like to attach it to an existing on premise server.
https://help.nextcloud.com/t/backblaze-b2-sync/1323

[travisdh1]

@Jstear said in Azure AD Authentication with NextCloud:

@travisdh1 possibly, but I would like to attach it to an existing on premise server.
https://help.nextcloud.com/t/backblaze-b2-sync/1323

Well, sure. I guess I should keep reminding people about my location. Online services like storage don't work because of the price we'd have to pay for a connection. Making the server and storage both online (preferably in the same data center) is just so much easier.