Hello all,
We use a SAML authenticated cloud proxy. (Zscaler). Windows 8.1 rollout is entirely forgotten about in our environment as metro apps behind such a setup are a non starter. I have been running test deployments onsite and the best solution for metro apps at this point is 'whitelist the URL to use no authentication'.
Is there any kind of roadmap to incorporate this badly needed feature? we have 1 user in the enterprise (unfortuntately the CEO) that seems to find the surface really neat, however, I get CONSTANT calls from this guy on the weekend because whatever newspaper app stops working every single time his 2 week long authentication token runs out.
Every time this occurs, I have to run a wireshark and try and guess at what links he's clicking on and fish every single URL out of wireshark and whitelist that. It's really really terrible to have to do and despite having gotten very good at doing it, it's extremely tedious and must be done for every single application.
Is microsoft aware of this issue and are they going to build in a browser call when an authentication request is detected ?
If windows 10 also goes this route, I fear we will be stuck on windows 7 for years. which is a nice OS, but it's starting to show its age a little.