even apple's business manager is compatible with AD
Apple Business Manager added (beta) support for Google Workspace a few months ago.
Does Company ‘X’ have an Azure Active Directory Tenant?
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Re: Does Company ‘X’ have an Azure Active Directory Tenant?
#72Bundling is anticompetitive and illegal. The MS ecosystem deserves close antitrust scrutiny.
So in that case are the following “illegal”
- Apple One
- Microsoft Office
- Amazon Prime
- Google GSuite
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Salesforce bundling SFDC with Concur
Re: Does Company ‘X’ have an Azure Active Directory Tenant?
#73What I can’t understand is why Azure AD doesn’t have a stronger position in the consumer space. Authentication via Google, Apple, and even still Facebook are nearly always supported on customer-facing logins. I rarely see an option for Microsoft.
They have a commanding position in the enterprise. What’s keeping them from crossing those enterprise boundaries?
Re: Does Company ‘X’ have an Azure Active Directory Tenant?
#74I genuinely don't know what AD is used for. If you need SSO, why not just use a SSO/SAML IdP?
OpenID Connect seems like the current popular flavour. SAML seems to be increasingly considered legacy.
Re: Does Company ‘X’ have an Azure Active Directory Tenant?
#75Microsoft is traditionally great at bundling their products. This is reminiscent of bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. Could an Okta have a claim against Microsoft similar to Netscape in the late 90's?
Will this meme ever die? Absolutely nothing came of Microsoft bundling IE with Windows in the 90s in the US. There was never a day since IE came bundled with Windows that it wasn’t bundled with Windows . There was never s browser choice initiative - nothing. Out of all of the anti trust allegations, bundling was the nothingburger. MS was forced to stop making OEMs pay for licenses for all of their PCs whether or not…
Yes, there was a version of Windows that did come unbundled, Windows N that was targeted for EU users to comply with EU antitrust agreements. And there was a browser choice selection during OOTB configuration with the top 4 or 5 browsers in the marketplace.
Re: Does Company ‘X’ have an Azure Active Directory Tenant?
#76Assuming the #1 Google result on page 1 of search is the companies public domain is a flaw. Some companies use a different domain for corporate use than their public domain name. Like fb.com
Well, you can also spot Facebook when their IPv6 addresses contain :face:b00c:
Re: Does Company ‘X’ have an Azure Active Directory Tenant?
#77Microsoft is traditionally great at bundling their products. This is reminiscent of bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. Could an Okta have a claim against Microsoft similar to Netscape in the late 90's?
Will this meme ever die? Absolutely nothing came of Microsoft bundling IE with Windows in the 90s in the US. There was never a day since IE came bundled with Windows that it wasn’t bundled with Windows . There was never s browser choice initiative - nothing. Out of all of the anti trust allegations, bundling was the nothingburger. MS was forced to stop making OEMs pay for licenses for all of their PCs whether or not…
The nuance that you’re missing is that Microsoft was a monopoly found guilty of antitrust violations. Bundling has different consequence for them than non-monopolies or monopolies that that have not had antitrust convictions.
Re: Does Company ‘X’ have an Azure Active Directory Tenant?
#78Assuming the #1 Google result on page 1 of search is the companies public domain is a flaw. Some companies use a different domain for corporate use than their public domain name. Like fb.com
The script also seems to assume that the company's domain name is of the form (foo.bar), which may be a reasonable assumption for the US-based Fortune 500, but won't work so well if trying to replicate this with international companies (which often have domain names like example.co.uk or example.co.jp).
Re: Does Company ‘X’ have an Azure Active Directory Tenant?
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Will this meme ever die? Absolutely nothing came of Microsoft bundling IE with Windows in the 90s in the US. There was never a day since IE came bundled with Windows that it wasn’t bundled with Windows . There was never s browser choice initiative - nothing. Out of all of the anti trust allegations, bundling was the nothingburger. MS was forced to stop making OEMs pay for licenses for all of their PCs whether or not…
The nuance that you’re missing is that Microsoft was a monopoly found guilty of antitrust violations. Bundling has different consequence for them than non-monopolies or monopolies that that have not had antitrust convictions.
“Bundling” had no consequences for them in the US, that’s just the point.
The consent decree never required them to change anything about IE in the US.
Re: Does Company ‘X’ have an Azure Active Directory Tenant?
#80What 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). *…
> And they say AWS has a hard time with naming :)
honestly though, Azure's naming strategies do exactly what they say. AWS uses names that are adjacent or completely random (fargate?). i don't even think cognito is a word in english language[0]