o365 Through Proxy

Question

Hello, we've begun testing office 365. Our servers are required to use a proxy for all connections to the outside world and I'm not sure how to configure Adaxes to use one for o365.

The Adaxes Service is configured to run as a specific domain user account. Configuring the proxy via Internet Properties from control panel while logged in as that domain user account, doesn't seem to help at all.

Any idea how we configure adaxes to use a proxy? We're currently using 2014.1.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hello,

Yes, it is possible. Adaxes uses the Azure AD Module for Windows PowerShell to connect to Office 365. Thus, you need to configure the module to connect to Office 365 via your proxy. To do this:

1. Open folder C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\MSOnline.

2. Create a file with the Config extension, for example, PowerShellModule.Config.

3. Open the file in a text editor, e.g. notepad.exe.

4. Paste the following text. This will force the module to use the default proxy settings configured under Control Panel \ All Control Panel items \ Internet Options.

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   
    <configuration>
    <configSections>
      <sectionGroup name="proxyGroup">
        <section name="basicProxy"
                 type="Proxy.Configuration.CustomProxySection, Proxy" />
      </sectionGroup>
    </configSections>
   
    <system.net>
      <defaultProxy enabled="true" useDefaultCredentials="true">
        <module type="Proxy.CustomProxy, Proxy"/>
      </defaultProxy>
    </system.net>
   
    <proxyGroup>   
      <basicProxy proxyHostAddress="Auto"/>
    </proxyGroup>
    </configuration>
   

5. If you want to use a custom proxy that is different from your Internet settings, you'll need to customize the proxy settings via the system.net\defaultProxy element of the file. See the following MSDN article for information on how to do that: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/librar ... 10%29.aspx.

6. When done, save the file.

7. Restart Softerra Adaxes Service.