Summary
Azure AD is a Microsoft-managed, cloud-based multi-tenant directory service. It can be used in a cloud-only infrastructure or a hybrid infrastructure. When used in a hybrid infrastructure, it allows us to use the same identities to work with resources on-premises and in the cloud. It extends local AD infrastructure functionalities to the cloud.
In this chapter, we learned what Azure AD Domain Service is and its capabilities are. After that, we looked at a step-by-step guide to integrate our on-premises directory service with Azure AD. Last but not least, we learned how we can manage Azure AD using familiar AD management tools. In this chapter, I was able to demonstrate a very limited number of features and capabilities of Azure AD. ...
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