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Jochen Nickel
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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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Special handling for moving to a multi-forest Active Directory environment


Microsoft provides three main integration scenarios that can be used standalone or combined in a hybrid IAM architecture. The first scenario builds the cloud identity scenario which we have already discussed and implemented in the first chapters of the book. The next two scenarios are:

  • Synchronized Identities: Azure AD Connect with password synchronization

  • Federated Identities: Azure AD Connect and ADFS for federation and local passwords will be used

As you can see, the Azure AD Connect tool is always required for any hybrid scenario you drive. So we need to start the supported topologies so that you can move to a single or multi forest scenario combined with single or multiple Azure Active Directories.

Supported topologies

The following topologies are supported by Microsoft:

  • Single Forest mapped to single Azure AD

  • This scenario is a commonly used one. Single forest and a single instance of Azure AD. For this scenario...

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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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