Category: Azure AD Cloud Sync

Do’s and don’ts concerning security for Identity part 3

Continuing with the do’s of Identity and supposing that you have a Hybrid identity setup. This will translate to having Source of Authority (SoA) in your on-premises environment. We covered parts of user sync, what kind of solutions to use…

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Section 5 – Implement an Identity Management Solution – Implement and manage hybrid identity – PTA, SSO and ADFS

In this section I will cover: implement and manage Pass-Through Authentication (PTA) implement and manage seamless Single Sign-On (SSO) implement and manage Federation (excluding manual ADFS deployments) What is PTA? Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Pass-through Authentication allows your users…

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SSPR writeback to disconnected forests using AAD cloud sync (Public preview)

What is AAD Cloud sync? Azure AD Connect Cloud sync is a light-weight agent that is commanded from the cloud. So there is no databases with the agent unlike with the old Azure AD Connect. I wrote a post about…

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AAD Connect compared to new Azure Cloud sync

*Update: “Automate provisioning users from Azure AD into on-premises applications Azure AD now supports provisioning into on-premises applications, and we have a preview that we’re excited for you to deploy and share your feedback. You must have an Azure AD…

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