Details on Azure AD Connect (BASIC)
Microsoft has discontinued DIRSYNC and directory synchronisation tool. Instead they have released Azure AD. I have provided insight into Azure D Connect for those who didn’t know. Azure AD Connect is a bridge solution between an organisation’s on-prem Active Directory instance and cloud-based Azure Active Directory. AD Connect enables IT admins to federate on-prem user identities to the Azure platform. Actually, it’s a good way to enable single sign-on (SSO) without having to set up an Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) instance. So, for Microsoft-focused organisations’, this concept of an identity bridge solution, which is very much like the concept of Google Cloud Directory Sync (formerly called Google Apps Directory Sync, GCDS or GADS), makes a lot of sense. So how does Azure AD Connect and Azure AD fit in with the rest of Microsoft’s strategy for Active Directory? Microsoft’s strategy with Azure Active Directory hasn’t been to deliver it as a cloud-based replacement t