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Does Company ‘X’ have an Azure Active Directory Tenant?

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Re: Does Company ‘X’ have an Azure Active Directory Tenant?

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post #6

I thought it would be 100%; everyone switched to AD after Novell. What are the 16.6% using is the interesting part?

NetIQ eDirectory tends to be the other big one. Although I am seeing a rise in companies not having an SSO solution recently at all. In fact some of the SMEs I've seen recently are running most of their stuff entirely via basic Microsoft O365 accounts or iCloud.

Re: Does Company ‘X’ have an Azure Active Directory Tenant?

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post #21
post #6

I thought it would be 100%; everyone switched to AD after Novell. What are the 16.6% using is the interesting part?

NetIQ eDirectory tends to be the other big one. Although I am seeing a rise in companies not having an SSO solution recently at all. In fact some of the SMEs I've seen recently are running most of their stuff entirely via basic Microsoft O365 accounts or iCloud.

I wouldn't think SSO is the primary use for AD. Definitely one big use, though!

Re: Does Company ‘X’ have an Azure Active Directory Tenant?

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post #6

I thought it would be 100%; everyone switched to AD after Novell. What are the 16.6% using is the interesting part?

Everyone with O365 has Azure AD. But a smaller number has Azure AD Premium. That’s growing as salespeople get canned if they don’t sell it.

MS is so bad with this stuff. It's difficult to determine what value you get from premium. If I knew maybe I'd buy it!

Re: Does Company ‘X’ have an Azure Active Directory Tenant?

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The way Microsoft does enterprise price bundling, this is not surprising at all.

They are insanely good at onboarding people onto it as well. I have a small startup just me and a cofounder right now and we pay $12 a month for 365 which includes all of Azure AD. Can start doing full integrations right away to lock us in.

Re: Does Company ‘X’ have an Azure Active Directory Tenant?

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This is assuming the domain has it, but it's even easier actually - you can just DIG DNS records and see if what they run as MX, cnames, etc, if there is teams DNS records and the MX record points to *.onmicrosoft.com or $tenantname.mail.protection.outlook.com there you go, even easier than "querying" google and seeing what's index. And much easier to script too. ;)

You can also enumerate that tenant and see which businesses share infrastructure/accounts.

https://github.com/technion/azure_enum

Re: Does Company ‘X’ have an Azure Active Directory Tenant?

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But also, what does it say about anything?

Microsoft absolutely dominates corporate IT. Their Office 360 delivers to much values at a low cost that the corps suffer from mediocre MS products because it's all there through a single subscription.

With AD we have SSO integration with a whole universe of mediocre apps, Jira for instance

Re: Does Company ‘X’ have an Azure Active Directory Tenant?

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post #26

What is Azure AD used for?

Authorization and authentication. Like it or not Microsoft Active Ditectory or Azure AD (basically the cloud version) works with everything and it’s kinda the only single-signon/shared login solution for enterprises. You can build something yourself with LDAP, Kerberos and maybe Keycloak, but why bother when you more or less need AD for Windows and Exchange anyway.
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