Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)

What is Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)?

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is Microsoft’s multi-tenant, cloud-base directory, and identity management service. Azure AD combines core directory services, application access management, and identity protection in a single solution.

Standards based platforms that helps developers deliver access control to their, based on centralized policy and rules.

Benefits:

Create and manage a single identity for each user across your entire enterprise, keeping users, groups, and devices in sync with Azure AD Connect.

• Provide single sign-on access to your apps, including thousands of pre-integrated SaaS apps, and to provide more secure remote access to on-premises SaaS application using the Azure AD Application Proxy.
• Allow application access security by enforcing rules-based Multi-Factor Authentication policies for both on-premises and cloud apps.
• Improve user productivity with self-service password reset and group and application access request using the MyApps portal.
• Take advantage of the high-availability and reliability of worldwide, enterprise-grade, cloud based identity and access management solution.

Who uses Azure AD

Azure AD is intended for IT admins, app developers and for users of Office 365, Azure, or Dynamics CRM Online.

All Microsoft Online business services rely on Azure AD for sign-in and other identity needs. If you subscribe to any Microsoft Online business services (for example, Office 365 or Microsoft Azure), you automatically get Azure AD with access to the entire free feature. Using the Azure Active Directory Free edition, you can manage users and groups, synchronize with on-premises directories, get single sign-on across Azure, Office 365, and thousands of popular SaaS apps like Salesforce, Workday, Concur, DocuSign, Google Apps, Box, ServiceNow, Dropbox, and more.

    

    To enhance your Azure AD implementation, you can also add paid capabilities upgrading to Azure Active Directory Basic, Premium P1 or Premium P2 editions.

Integrate Azure AD with Windows Server Active Directory

Azure AD Connect Express Settings is used when you have a single-forest topology and password hash synchronization for authentication. Express Settings is the default option and is used for the most commonly deployed. You are only a few short clicks away to extend your on-premises directory to the cloud.

     

     Before you start installing Azure AD Connect, make sure to download Azure AD Connect.

1.  Sing in as a local administrator to the server you wish to install Azure AD Connect on.

2.     Double click AzureADConnect.msi

3.  Welcome screen, select the box agreeing to the licensing terms and click Continue

4.     Click Use Express settings

5.  Enter username and password of a Global Administrator for your Azure AD.

6.  Click Next

7.  Ready to configure screen, click Install.

Azure AD Connect?

Integrating your on-premises directories with Azure AD makes your users more productive by providing a common identity for accessing both cloud and on-premises resources. Users and organizations can take advantage of the following:

      

•    Users can use single identity to access on-premises applications and cloud services such  as Office 365.
•     Single tool to provide an easy deployment experience for synchronization and sign-in.
•     Provides the newest capabilities for your scenarios. Azure AD Connect replaces older  versions of identity integration tools such as DirSync and Azure AD Sync.

Azure AD Connect Health for ADDS

Azure AD Connect Health for Active Directory Domain Service provides monitoring for domain controllers that are installed on Windows Server 2008R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012R2 and Windows Server 2016. The Health Agent installation you to monitor your on-premises ADDS environment from the cloud.

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