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Microsoft 365 Administration Inside Out, 3rd Edition
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Microsoft 365 Administration Inside Out, 3rd Edition

by Aaron Guilmette, Darryl Kegg, Ed Fisher
January 2023
Intermediate to advanced
992 pages
23h 44m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 9

Identity and authentication planning

Identity types

User authentication

Identity federation

What’s next?

In a typical Microsoft 365 implementation, your users exist in Azure Active Directory (AAD) primarily because of directory synchronization. (Configuring directory synchronization is discussed in detail in Chapter 10, “Installing AAD Connect.”) However, in addition to the available identity types, several options are available for user sign-in and authentication, depending on how your users are created.

Each of these options has a different set of requirements, affecting the implementation of directory synchronization and possibly driving other infrastructure requirements and even Azure AD-licensed features.

This chapter discusses ...

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