AZURE
Azure AD Without a Local Server
Admins might use Azure Active Directory for its SSO capabilities, but they’ll need additional solutions to implement fully cloud-based IAM.
Quickly becoming Microsoft's crux offering, Azure is a cloud platform for infrastructure and more. Azure Active Directory, however, is not a cloud version of Active Directory, unlike JumpCloud Directory-as-a-Service.
Admins might use Azure Active Directory for its SSO capabilities, but they’ll need additional solutions to implement fully cloud-based IAM.
This comparison between Azure AD and AD FS explores how the Microsoft offerings overlap, where they differ, and potential alternatives.
With Active Directory struggling to authenticate modern IT infrastructure, IT teams are concerned about the risk of Microsoft owning your identity.
Organizations interested in the identity management capabilities of Azure AD may find value in understanding each tier of their pricing structure.
For admins considering AAD as their solution to cloud identity management, understanding Azure AD Free can mean a world of difference.
SMBs interested in moving their directory services to the cloud may find value in Azure AD, but can it authenticate users to all their resources?
Can you use Azure AD to manage IT resources for remote users? There are some circumstances Azure AD fits in, but it comes with limitations.
If Azure AD is not your organization’s best choice for extending Active Directory to the cloud, here are a few alternative solutions.
Many factors and additional services come into play when you calculate the total cost of ownership of Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory.
Do Universal Directory and Azure® Active Directory® meet the expectations for a modern directory service?
Active Directory’s Group Policy Objects (GPOs) have been indispensable to system-level policy management, but Azure AD’s policies extension has limitations.
Without having to access the Azure console, you can remotely manage O365 users, and your entire IT infrastructure, from a cloud-based directory.