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Published inFeb 2019
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Jochen Nickel
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Jochen Nickel

Jochen Nickel is a Cloud, Identity and Access Management Solution Architect with a clear focus and in-depth technical knowledge of Identity and Access Management. He is currently working for inovit GmbH in Switzerland leading and executing projects in the field of Identity and Access Management including Data Classification and Information protection. Jochen is focused on Microsoft Technologies, especially in the Enterprise Mobility + Security Suite, Office 365 and Azure. He is an established speaker at many technology conferences like Azure Bootcamps, TrustInTech Meetups or the Experts Live Switzerland and Europe.
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Understanding Azure AD B2B


Azure AD B2B solves the problem of collaboration between business partners. It allows users to share business applications between partners, without going through inter-company federation relationships and internally-managed partner identities. With Azure AD B2B, you can create cross-company relationships by inviting and authorizing users from partner companies to access your resources. With this process, each company federates once, with Azure AD, and each user is then represented by a single Azure AD account. This option also provides a higher security level, because if a user leaves the partner organization, access is automatically disallowed. Inside of Azure AD, the user will be handled as a guest, and they won't be able to traverse other users in the directory. Permissions of the invited user will be provided over the correct associated group membership.

The following figure shows the process of enabling business partners to access your applications:

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Jochen Nickel

Jochen Nickel is a Cloud, Identity and Access Management Solution Architect with a clear focus and in-depth technical knowledge of Identity and Access Management. He is currently working for inovit GmbH in Switzerland leading and executing projects in the field of Identity and Access Management including Data Classification and Information protection. Jochen is focused on Microsoft Technologies, especially in the Enterprise Mobility + Security Suite, Office 365 and Azure. He is an established speaker at many technology conferences like Azure Bootcamps, TrustInTech Meetups or the Experts Live Switzerland and Europe.
Read more about Jochen Nickel