User names and passwords are the most common way of controlling access to applications. Nowadays we use more and more applications. These applications can be from on-premises or cloud. Unless there is a central identity management system, users will have to maintain different usernames, passwords to access these applications.
Azure Active Directory is a powerful, reliable cloud-based identity and…
As we know, passwords are no longer strong. In Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (2017), it says, 81% of hacking-related breaches used either stolen or weak passwords. Multi-factor authentication can provide an extra layer of security to the sign-in process but it doesn’t eliminate the requirement for passwords. In one of my previous blog posts, I explain how we can enable Azure…
When it comes to hybrid AD setup, we have to work with whole different types of issues than on-premises AD environments. Azure AD is a managed service by Microsoft, so there is nothing we can do to manage its health. Therefore, most of the hybrid AD issues are related to connectivity, Directory sync or authentication methods (password hash, pass-through authentication, federated). The main…
There are 3 different methods which we can use to integrate on-premises Active Directory with Azure AD.
• Pass Password hash synchronization
• Federation using Microsoft AD FS or PingFederate
• Pass-through Authentication
All above methods allow on-premises users to use their existing domain user names and passwords in order to authenticate in to Azure AD integrated…
