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what is Azure Active Directory | Forum

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Peter Groft
Peter Groft Nov 2 '22

In simple words, Azure Active Directory is the cloud versions of Active Directory.

It also is popularly known as Azure Active Directory, which is the single and universal cloud-based identity and access management platform. Every organization will have an Azure AD or AD which helps employees to sign in and access various resources within the organization. Check out some more information on Azure Active Directory now. What is Azure Active Directory Premium?

Azure Active Directory Premium is an excellent service that helps you with the access management and Identity check capability in the Cloud environment.

Why Azure Active Directory Premium?

Azure Active Directory Premium features provide the benefits of multi-factor authentication (MFA), single sign-on to thousands of cloud (SaaS) apps, easy access to web apps you run on-premises, Advanced alert and reporting features. Azure AD Premium Features

The free edition is included with an online service license, for example, if you have Azure, dynamics 365 or office 365 then you can access free Azure active directory free features.

If we will categories based on the features then Azure active directory will be of two categories:

Azure active directory free: Here you can manage user accounts, groups, single sign-on access. on-premises active directory synchronization with Azure active directory. apart from that, you can able to access various popular software as a service application like Office 365, Salesforce, Google Apps, Dropbox, etc, All the applications support single sign-on.

Azure active directory premium: with active directory premium license you can get all the active directory free features and also you will get various enterprise label identity management capabilities or features.

Advantages of Azure active directory

1- single sign-on: Which is the single sign-on feature you are able to access a number of apps from anywhere. The apps include Office 365, Azure, Salesforce Dropbox, etc. Active Directory provides simplify single sign-on services to more than 2800 software as a service application. With Azure active directory free license single sign-on will be assigned to 10 apps per user. But if you have Azure active directory premium license then it can be assigned to unlimited apps per user.

2- High availability: Microsoft Azure active directory data centers spread across 58 locations all over the world. Microsoft provides 99.99% SLA for all the paid versions for Azure Active Directory.

3- Application proxy: By using Microsoft Azure active directory application proxy feature organizations can publish on-premises applications for secure remote access. you really do not need to use any VPN, all your users can access applications over the internet like we are accessing Office 365.

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