Mastering Active Directory

Benefits of Azure AD

The following list describes why Azure AD is important for today's identity infrastructures:

• Azure AD can be enabled with a few clicks and we can start to manage identities. There's no need to deploy servers, install server roles, or configure roles.
• It is well integrated with Azure AD-aware applications, and users can authenticate to those with minimum application changes.
• Windows 10 devices can directly join Azure AD and be managed.
• Multifactor authentication and conditional access rules (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-conditional-access) can be used to protect identities and workload access.
• Advanced monitoring and auditing to understand identity usage and their actions is ...