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Published inSep 2016
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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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Choosing the best directory synchronization scenario for cloud identities


To integrate or extend the local Active Directory to the cloud, we need a rich set of capabilities to address all the different requirements of our customers. In the following figure, we see the three most common synchronization and two extension scenarios we can use.

  • Synchronization scenarios:

    • Directory and password synchronization

    • Federation and directory synchronization

    • Federation, directory, and password synchronization

  • Extension scenarios:

    • Stretching your local Active Directory to Azure IaaS

    • Using Azure Active Directory Domain Services to bring legacy authentication LOBs to the cloud

Synchronization scenarios

With the creation of a new Azure Active Directory tenant, directory information is managed independently from the On-Premises Active Directory forest by default. A new on-board user must be created in both the Azure Active Directory and the local Active Directory. Unless you drive a cloud-only company, you always...

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Published in: Sep 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785889448

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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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