Easy Deployment and Management
Azure AD DS offers a streamlined deployment process, providing organizations with the opportunity to set up and configure their managed domain services in the Azure environment quickly. It also seamlessly integrates with existing on-premises infrastructure, extending your organization’s Active Directory environment to the cloud.
With this cloud-based service, organizations can explore a consistent management experience by supporting similar management tools and techniques used within on-premises Active Directory. This familiarity process simplifies adoption and enables centralized management of user identities, groups, and resource access.
Emulates Traditional Domain Management
A significant selling point of the Azure AD DS is its ability to join Azure VMs to the managed domain, providing seamless integration between an organization’s cloud-based resources and its domain services. By emulating a traditional domain join, Azure AD DS ensures compatibility with existing workflows and applications that rely on Active Directory.
Azure AD DS allows organizations to manage Azure VMs and other resources through a centralized management interface. This provides a consistent experience for administration and configuration tasks. Furthermore, this level of centralization simplifies management, reduces administrative overhead, and enhances overall efficiency.
User Identities In Azure Active Directory
Azure AD DS leverages identities stored in the Azure Active Directory to provide several domain services in the Azure environment. Firstly, the services use Azure AD identities to authenticate users who are accessing domain-joined resources, such as Azure VMs. Azure AD DS also relies on its Active Directory identification for user and group management by creating and managing user accounts and security groups in Azure AD.
Microsoft also provides a tool, Azure AD Connect, which enables the synchronization of on-person Active Directory identities with Azure AD. This synchronization process ensures that user accounts and security groups from the on-premises infrastructure are replicated to the Azure AD, making them available by the Azure AD DS.
Supports Deployment of Legacy Applications
Azure AD DS supports the deployment of legacy applications by providing a managed domain that can be used to join Azure VMs. With this, organizations can run legacy applications that require Active Directory in the cloud without deploying and managing a domain controller.
By deploying legacy applications in the cloud, organizations can reduce costs associated with developing and maintaining infrastructure, increase agility by creating and managing domains in minutes, and enhance their security backed by Microsoft’s world-class security infrastructure.
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