Azure Active Directory is a Microsoft identity manager and is used to create intelligence-driven access policies that are used to secure Azure resources. Every Tenant created in Azure is backed by an Azure Active Directory, which assists in the Role-Based Access Control, or RBAC, which is the identity model that Azure resource leverage for security. It is shared between both SaaS based solutions such as Office 365 and IaaS/PaaS based solutions such as App Services/VMs in Azure. Here, you can see the basic flow of a user authenticating:
Application authentication
Basic Login Flow
You need to remember all applications need to be registered ...
Get Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.