Developing Applications with Azure Active Directory: Principles of Authentication and Authorization for Architects and Developers

© Manas Mayank and Mohit Garg 2019

M. Mayank, M. GargDeveloping Applications with Azure Active Directoryhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5040-2_1

1. Introduction to Azure Active Directory

Manas Mayank¹  and Mohit Garg¹

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Hyderabad, India

 

The need for centralized management of users and devices over networks led to the advent of directory services. The users and devices that need to be authenticated over a network are referred to as resources . Directory services act as a single point that provides information about all the resources on a network.

As most of you are aware, Microsoft’s implementation of on-premises directory services is called Active Directory. In this book, we will use the abbreviation AD to refer to Active Directory in general. ...