Case Study: Morehouse College achieves seamless Office 365 migration and unified single sign-on with Delinea

Centrify facilitates Morehouse College Move to Microsoft Office 365

Morehouse College, a 2,000‑member liberal arts institution in Atlanta and a leading producer of African American STEM PhDs, needed to replace on‑premises Exchange with Office 365 without burdening a thin IT staff or forcing users to manage multiple logins. The college required an Active Directory‑based single sign‑on that would work across Windows, Mac and Linux, support mobile devices, extend beyond Office 365 to other cloud apps, meet FERPA/HIPAA/PCI compliance needs, and minimize on‑premises infrastructure — requirements that outstripped what ADFS could easily deliver.

Morehouse selected Centrify’s Azure‑validated Identity Service and Server Suite to provide AD‑based SSO, user provisioning, privileged identity management, auditing and mobile “zero sign‑on,” deployable in hours without opening DMZ ports. The rollout cut the cost and complexity of managing Office 365 and other cloud apps, improved user adoption and productivity, freed IT to focus on higher‑value work, and strengthened compliance and risk‑mitigation and business‑continuity capabilities as the college moved to campus‑wide deployment.

Morehouse College

Clifford Russell

Chief Information Officer