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Alfresco Office Services

Platform
Alfresco
Product
Alfresco Office Services
Release
2.0
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2026-05-06T19:22:31.517743
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en-US
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Archived

You can configure AOS to seamlessly integrate with Identity Service, disabling Basic Authentication and relying on Identity Service instead to perform the authentication when leveraging AOS capabilities.

Assuming Identity Service is properly installed and configured, the authentication.chain property should already be defined and should include an authentication chain component of type identity-service. For example:

authentication.chain=identity-service-1:identity-service,alfrescoNtlm-1:alfrescoNtlm

To integrate AOS and Identity Service, it is sufficient that the authentication.chain property defines an authentication chain component of type identity-service as the first available component.

It is now possible to perform the secure authentication via Identity Service when editing documents in Microsoft Office through Alfresco Content Services.

You can still access the AOS endpoints via a web browser as long as the secure authentication has been performed first by visiting the following URL (assuming the Alfresco Content Services host name is repo.example.com):

https://repo.example.com/alfresco/service/aos/authenticate

Note

The duration of the authenticated session will be affected by the session timeouts configured within Keycloak.