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What is Azure Active Directory?

Azure Active Directory is Microsoft’s multi-tenant, cloud-based directory and identity management service. For an organization, Azure AD helps employees sign up to multiple services and access them anywhere over the cloud with a single set of login credentials.



Azure Active Directory Concept:

It is important to understand these Azure AD concepts.

Identity. An object that can get authenticated. An identity can be a user with a username and password.

Account. An identity that has data associated with it. You can't have an account without an identity.

Azure subscription. Used to pay for Azure cloud services. You can have many subscriptions and they're linked to a credit card.

Azure tenant/directory. A dedicated and trusted instance of Azure AD, a Tenant is automatically created when your organization signs up for a Microsoft cloud service subscription.

More instances of Azure AD can be created.

Azure AD is the underlying product providing the identity service.

The term Tenant means a single instance of Azure AD representing a single organization.

The terms Tenant and Directory are often used interchangeably.

Compare Active Directory Domain Services to Azure Active Directory

AD DS is the traditional deployment of Windows Server-based Active Directory on a physical or virtual server. Although AD DS is commonly considered to be primarily a directory service, it is only one component of the Windows Active Directory suite of technologies, which also includes Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS), Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS), Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), and Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS). Although you can deploy and manage AD DS in Azure virtual machines it’s recommended you use Azure AD instead, unless you are targeting IaaS workloads that depend on AD DS specifically.



Windows AD vs Azure AD

 

Windows AD

ADDS (Windows Active Directory Domain Services):

Allows admin to manage information relating to user logins.

ADLS (Azure Data Lake Storage Service):

Allows you to store data of any type and size.

ADFS (Active Directory Federation Service):

Allows you to have single-sign-on access to system and applications.

ADCS (Active Directory and Certification Services):

Allows you administrators to customize services in order to issue and manage public certificates.

ADRMS (Active Directory Rights Management Services)

Is a security tool for data protection.

 

Azure AD

Azure AD integrates all above layers into below two

WAAD (Windows Azure Active Directory)

This combines all the problem revolving around identification management.

WAACS (Windows Azure Access Control Service)

This takes care of federating all the services of an organization.

Service Audience:

There are three types of audience in azure active directory.



For more understanding, please go through below link.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/configure-azure-active-directory/


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