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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 by pdimitar »

Eduard wrote: post #40
mrweasel wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Self-hosted Gitlab instances also can act as authentication services. Connecting git with an internal AD/LDAP allows for not requiring Azure AD.

I'd love to read more about it. Got any links?

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

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Post by jmathai »

Eduard wrote: post #40
mrweasel wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Self-hosted Gitlab instances also can act as authentication services. Connecting git with an internal AD/LDAP allows for not requiring Azure AD.

This isn’t a solution for enterprises, however.

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

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Post by mutt2016 »

pdimitar wrote: post #41
Eduard wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Self-hosted Gitlab instances also can act as authentication services. Connecting git with an internal AD/LDAP allows for not requiring Azure AD.

I'd love to read more about it. Got any links?

If it's just SSO, I have many good things to say about keycloak.

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

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Post by mooreds »

kn8 wrote: post #26

What is Azure AD used for?

It is a directory with a lot of functionality.

There's actually a number of products under the Azure AD name, including:

* Azure AD, their employee/workforce solution. It's a directory, authentication and authorization system. Think Okta or AWS SSO. I imagine this is mostly what the survey was tracking.

* Azure AD B2C, their CIAM solution. Think Auth0, Cognito or FusionAuth (disclosure, I'm a FusionAuth employee).

* Azure AD EI, external identity management (users outside your org).

* Azure AD DS, domain services (older Windows focused services). This subsumes a lot of what Active Directory provided.

And they say AWS has a hard time with naming :).

You can learn more about each of these here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/active-directory/ (click on the "AAD" dropdown).

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

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Post by rlv-dan »

chayesfss wrote: post #5

I’d bet 100% have tenants but only some with names you know? Why wouldn’t they have a tenant, assess the technology and decide how to incorporate?

Exactly. I know one myself, one of the biggest companies in the world, who's tenant name has no resemblance to their company name. Security by obscurity is not a security feature but it is a barrier...

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

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Post by ascar »

Why was that title editorialized as "around 83.4%"?

83.4% of 500 is exactly 417. The article is also exact about these numbers. No need to add "around".

Edit: Why was the title editorialized to begin with?

Edit2: looks like the title was updated to the original. Thanks.

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

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Post by eastbound »

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #24
vinay_ys wrote: post #11

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.

This is awesome! I went 6 times to Microsoft AD’s pricing page and I could never figure out how much it would be! Then I remembered it would be bundled with Azure, which, like any cloud, has the “It’s 0.0062$ per unit of consumption, so sometimes it’s 2€ per month, sometimes it’s 647€, we never know ourselves, good luck!” effect.

Has anyone else sometimes avoided a cloud service because the pricing was opaque?

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

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Post by graiz »

ascar wrote: post #47

Why was that title editorialized as "around 83.4%"? 83.4% of 500 is exactly 417. The article is also exact about these numbers. No need to add "around". Edit: Why was the title editorialized to begin with? Edit2: looks like the title was updated to the original. Thanks.

The article says that there may be other domains that it didn't catch because it wasn't the first result in google or the company has the server on a different domain, so it's likely a slight undercount.

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

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Post by Retric »

ascar wrote: post #47

Why was that title editorialized as "around 83.4%"? 83.4% of 500 is exactly 417. The article is also exact about these numbers. No need to add "around". Edit: Why was the title editorialized to begin with? Edit2: looks like the title was updated to the original. Thanks.

That 417 is probably low. It’s hard to prove that nobody in a giant organization is using some tool, but conversely that undercuts the such statistics. If say 0.01% of Walmart’s employees are using X because of a recent acquisition then that’s hardly an endorsement of X by Walmart.
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