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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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Designing a hybrid identity

There are many reasons why organizations look to extend their On-prem AD to Azure AD. Let's look into some of those reasons:

  • Cloud application (SaaS) adoption: Organizations use different types of applications for their operations (On-prem). Most standalone applications are easy to manage and maintain, but some applications have complexities. Some applications require lots of resources. SAP applications are a great example. SAP applications depend on a few components such as database servers, application servers, and front-end servers. If any of these components fail, the whole application fails too. Therefore, you need to plan for high availability on top of that. Now, more and more vendors are taking away this burden from customers and offer cloud versions of applications instead of On-prem ones. By doing this, organizations don't have to worry about scalability, availability, and maintenance. The application will be available for...
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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