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Dishan Francis
Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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Federation with Azure AD

Federation trusts between domains allow organizations to manage their own identities within their own environments. Azure AD also supports federation with on-prem AD. When a federation trust is in place, users can log in to Azure AD using the same on-prem AD passwords. With this method, on-prem users will always be authenticating via on-prem AD. We can use AD Federation Services (AD FS) or PingFederate to create federation trusts between Azure AD and on-prem AD.

In Chapter 13, I have explained how AD FS works with Azure AD and also demonstrated how to enable federation between Azure AD and AD FS. Please check Chapter 13 if you need more details.

Pass-through authentication

To create federation trusts between Azure AD and on-prem AD, quite a bit of work is involved. We need additional servers, SSL certificates, licenses, a HA solution, firewall changes, and advanced configurations. But Azure AD Pass-through Authentication allows organizations to...

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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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