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Published inNov 2021
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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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Azure AD is a Microsoft-managed, cloud-based, and multi-tenant directory service. It can be used in a cloud-only infrastructure or in a hybrid infrastructure. When used in a hybrid infrastructure, it allows us to use the same identities so that we can work with resources on-prem and in the cloud. It extends local AD infrastructure functionalities to the cloud.

In this chapter, we learned what Azure AD DS is and what its capabilities are. We also looked into the different types of sign-in options that we can use in a hybrid setup, including password hash synchronization, pass-through authentication, and SSO. After that, we looked at a step-by-step guide for integrating our on-prem directory service with Azure AD. We also learned how to set up secure LDAP with an Azure AD managed domain and how to improve the resiliency of the Azure AD managed domain by using replica sets. In this chapter, I was only able to demonstrate a very limited number of features and capabilities...

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Published in: Nov 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801070393

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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.
Read more about Dishan Francis