Getting start

ONES provide 4 kinds of integration method for the user single-sign-on purpose, which can help you to easily manage the system and users through the integration. Which integration should be chosen depends on the network security, the level for permission you grant to ONES and also the service your organization used.

Of course, the more functionality & feature to be included in ONES, a higher level of access right is required to be granted to ONES.

For users who ONLY use hot-desk and visitor management modules

We recommend users who only use hot-desk and visitor management modules can use Active directory to avoid security concerns on authentication of access right to ONES.

Microsoft 365	Active directory

Exchange server	Google workspace (Coming soon)

Comparison of different integration

	Microsoft 365	Exchange Server	Active Directory with LDAP	Single sign on Only
Single sign on mechanism	OAuth	ADFS	ADFS / LDAP	ADFS
Support Outlook add-in	Full function	Full function	Partially support	Partially support
Show Offision's Bookings in Outlook calendar	Yes	Yes	Yes 1	Yes 1
User account synchronization	Microsoft Graph	Exchange Powershell	LDAP	No synchronization
Synchronize (2-way) User's appointment to Exchange 2	Yes	Yes	No	No
Synchronize (2-way) Exchange Room's appointment to Exchange	Yes	Yes	No 3	No 3
Allow create booking in Outlook directly 4	Yes	Yes	No	No
Permission requirement	Azure Active Directory Application with Microsoft Graph User.Read.All, Place.Read.All,Group.Read.All and Calendars.ReadWrite permissions	Service account with ApplicationImpersonation and View-Only Recipients permission	Service account with LDAP ReadOnly permission	No permission requirement
Pros	Fully integration with Microsoft365, can reserve the resource through outlook directly, and create Teams meeting	Fully integration with Exchange server, can reserve the resource through outlook directly	No permission & access need for Exchange server	No access permission require, no access require to Active directory
Cons	High user access permission require	High user access permission require	Cannot use existing room / equipment in Exchange server	Cannot use existing room / equipment in Exchange server. User account will be created only when the user first time login, difficult to pre-assign the booking permission to user

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1. The system can allow create booking in Outlook directly without support of Outlook add-in↩
2. If not using Exchange server's Rooms / Equipment, we suggest not to create / disable all existing Rooms and Equipments in Exchange server to prevent user get confused. ↩
3. Not only the Booking with the room / equipment, all appointment in user's Outlook will be synchronized into Offision↩
4. Offision server will send email with iCal to organizer and attendees, the bookings information will import into their Outlook calendar automatically↩