Mastering Active Directory

Single sign-on

In an organization, there are different applications in use. Each of these applications has a different authentication mechanism. It will be difficult to maintain different user credentials to authenticate on different applications. Most application vendors now support integration with Active Directory for authentication. This means that with Active Directory credentials, you can authenticate on different systems and applications used by your organization. You will not need to keep typing your credentials to get access. Once you authenticate on a computer, the same session will be used to authenticate other Active Directory integrated applications.