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Using Your Corporate VPN with Evolphin Managed Cloud based Zoom Servers

Context Corporate VPNs are used by customers to access their corporate resources behind their firewalls including workstations, network shares, printers. When you turn on your corporate VPN on your workstation there are two ways the traffic from your desktop is routed to the Evolphin Cloud services on AWS: All traffic including Evolphin Cloud requests are […]

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Using Google G Suite OpenID Connect Provider for Authentication

Evolphin Zoom supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) natively. This can be used to delegate authentication to a Google G Suite OIDC Provider. This article describes the configuration changes needed on the Google G Suite side in order for a user to directly authenticate with G Suite from their Evolphin Zoom service. Prerequisites You have administrative access

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Enforce Password Policy

Zoom 7.6.3 onward, admins will be able set and enforce password policy for external users.In the future, this policy will be extended to apply on Zoom internal users as well. Note: Password policy is enforced only when Zoom Realm is in use, that means users are managed by Zoom server and stored on the Zoom

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Change Evolphin Zoom Azure AD Password

Note: This article applies to Zoom users that authenticate with a Microsoft Azure AD Identity Provider If you created a new account with Microsoft Azure AD in order to login into Evolphin Zoom, the password reset must be performed on the Microsoft Azure AD Portal: Goto https://portal.azure.com Click on your profile icon > My Microsoft

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Zoom Webmin and Preview Server Cookie and Session Management

In this article, we learn how to configure various cookie and session management properties on the Zoom Webmin and Preview Server.By learning about cookie and session properties, one can fine tune the settings according their environment and make them more secure. Preview Server Evolphin Preview Server hosts and provides various functionalities like Webclient, Preview generation,

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Special Users for Running Unattended Processes

Access to the Zoom repository is secured via a user sign-in. However, when an unattended process runs, such as third-party scripting, transcoding, shared hot-folder ingest or another complex ingest flow, no user may be available to perform the sign-in. This becomes even more relevant when a Single Sign-On (SSO) mechanism is used for authentication. Presently,

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Sign-in for External Users

External users of Zoom such as partners or freelancers, i.e. those who do not have a user account within your organization’s user directory, would be able to access content shared with them after signing-in on the Zoom Web apps. There are multiple ways to sign-in for external users. Basic sign-in The Basic sign-in mechanism is

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Federating SAML2 IdP with Evolphin Zoom’s OpenID Connect (OIDC) Provider

Evolphin Zoom supports OIDC natively. However many Identity Providers (IdP) only support older SAML2 standard for federating with other IdPs. For example if you were using Azure AD as your OIDC provider for Zoom, but needed to provide Zoom Web app access to partners/freelancers that were using Google’s G Suite, you will need to federate

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Login screen after Realm switch

Right after switching realms between Zoom, OpenID (Ping), or LDAP, Zoom apps still show the login prompt for the previous realm. The correct login prompt is shown only after the user attempts to log in using the old login prompt and the login fails. All subsequent login prompts on that user workstation are then shown

Configuring OpenID Connect (OIDC) Integration with Azure AD

OpenID Connect (OIDC) is an authentication protocol built on the OAuth 2.0 standard that a Zoom user (desktop or web) can use to securely sign in. By configuring the app integration in Microsoft Azure AD endpoint’s implementation of OpenID Connect, you can add sign-in to Zoom via your AzureAD credentials, or, federated credentials if Azure

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Connecting to Azure AD using Zoom LDAP Connector

User accounts, group memberships, and credential hashes can be synchronized one way from Azure AD (AAD) to Azure AD Domain Services (Azure AD DS or AAD DS). Azure AD DS integrates with your existing Azure AD tenant, which makes it possible for users to sign in using their existing credentials. Azure AD DS replicates identity

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Configuring Okta (OIDC) with Azure AD

To integrate Okta as your IDP for Zoom Single Sign On (SSO) with user/group credentials stored on Azure AD, requires our OpenID Connect (OIDC) Connector to be enabled as well as LDAP protocol to pull the user attributes from Azure AD DS. Please check the prerequisites below before proceeding with the integration. Prerequisites An Azure

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Using Evolphin Managed VPN with Evolphin Managed Cloud based Zoom Servers

Context Evolphin Managed Cloud-based Zoom Servers can technically be accessed from anywhere in the world. Without strict firewall settings, a user from any IP address can run the Zoom desktop apps or Web Client and access the cloud-based Zoom or Preview Servers. To protect against malicious users, by default, Evolphin locks down the Zoom server

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