Functionality and Usage of Azure AD

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Azure AD is a cloud identity provider

  • A tenant is what stores users, groups, policies, computers, etc

  • It works with OIDC, SAML, WS-FED, OAuth 2.0, etc that allows us to interact with other services

Active Directory Domain Services

  • Similar, but different to Azure AD

  • Supports Kerberos, NTLM, LDAP, etc

  • Azure AD is completely flat whereas on-prem AD is hierarchical in nature

    • It supports group policy and delegation

  • Azure AD Connect provides the ability to syncronize on-prem AD to cloud AD

3rd party SaaS solutions can be setup to trust a given AD tenant

  • Office 365 along with other Azure services also supports this setup providing a central point of governance

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