Learn Microsoft Azure: Active Directory

Many administrators are familiar with Active Directory and its long history as Microsoft's premiere directory service. Active Directory is the key to managing access to resources and enterprise directories. Now Microsoft has released a service-based approach to Active Directory. It's a version that lives in the cloud, hosted in Azure, but can integrate in a hybrid scenario.

Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) provides most of the rich functionalities of Active Directory, with the conveniences of cloud-based computing. Azure AD also offers developers a great way to integrate identity management into applications. In this Azure training course, David Elfassy introduces the terminology and feature set in Azure AD. He shows how to implement and manage user and group accounts, join client computers, and implement single sign-on and multifactor authentication. (Industry standard protocols such as SAML 2.0, WS-Federation, and OpenID Connect makes sign-on possible on a variety of platforms.) In the final chapters of the course, David reviews the more advanced reporting and features in Azure AD and Azure AD Connect, including syncing on-premise Active Directory and Azure AD.