Web service authentication in SharePoint Office 365 compared to SharePoint BPOS?

Question

On our public web site we have forms users can use to insert data into lists on our SharePoint BPOS site. We use the web services (authentication/lists) to do this and the piece of code to authenticate is:

public void authentication()
{
   Auth.Authentication authenticationObj = new Auth.Authentication();
   authenticationObj.Url = authServiceUrl;
   authenticationObj.CookieContainer = new System.Net.CookieContainer();
   authenticationObj.AllowAutoRedirect = true;
   authenticationObj.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(_authUserName, _authPassword);

   Auth.LoginResult result = authenticationObj.Login(_authUserName, _authPassword);
}

We just got migrated to Office 365 and now the result comes back with PassWordDoesNotMatch but I know the password match because I can log on to the site with it.

I did a google and it seems like this doing this kind of thing has changed from BPOS to Office 365, am I correct?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Yes it has changed from BPOS to 365 - 365 uses claims based authentication.

http://www.wictorwilen.se/Post/How-to-do-active-authentication-to-Office-365-and-SharePoint-Online.aspx

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Remote-Authentication-in-b7b6f43c

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cjohnson/archive/2011/05/14/part-2-headless-authentication-with-sharepoint-online-and-the-client-side-object-model.aspx