Azure Active Directory is a comprehensive identity and access management cloud solution that provides a robust set of capabilities to manage users and groups; it handles billions of authentications each day from more than 200 million active users. Azure Active Directory offers developers an effective way to integrate identity management into their applications: let's take a look on how to do it.

1. Azure AD:
Enterprise-Grade Identity Provider For Your Applications
Davide Benvegnù
Microsoft MVP – Visual Studio ALM
Founder, Director & CTO – DBTek Ltd

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Davide Benvegnù
Director & CTO – DBTek Ltd
Former International Development Manager – Aruba.it
Microsoft MVP in Visual Studio ALM
Speaker - Trainer
Community Contributor (1 in HK, 2 in Italy)
14+ years experience in IT
@davidebenvegnu – www.dbtek.com.hk – davide@dbtek.com.hk

3. Azure Active Directory (AAD)
Overview

4. About AAD
Identity and access
management for the
cloud
Simplify user access to
any cloud app
Protect sensitive data
and applications with
Multi-factor auth
Enable self-service for
your employees and users
A comprehensive, extensible identity and access management cloud
solution providing a robust set of capabilities to manage users and groups.

5. AAD Features
• SSO to any cloud and on-premises web app
• Pre-integrated with Salesforce.com, Office 365, Box, …
• Enforce multi-factor authentication with SaaS
• Works with almost any platform, device and technology
• Integrate with on-premises Active Directory
• Enterprise scale and SLA
• handles billions of authentications each day
• more than 200 million active users
• 99.9% SLA

6. AAD Features
• Multi-tenancy
• Supports multiple protocols:
• OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect 1.0, SAML, WS-Federation 1.2
• Supports REST APIs
• MS Graph APIs
• SDKs
• Extensible:
• Custom properties

7. One AAD to rule them all

8. Azure Active Directory
Integration: How to

9. Things to know
• AAD management only on “Old Azure portal”
• Some needed params are not shown on the portal
• Office365 users
• Create a new Azure subscription thought the O365 admin portal
• Web apps: Authentication via MS login screen *
• Desktop apps: Silent autentication
* = Workaround, don’t tell MS… ;)

10. Azure Active Directory
Integration: DEMO

11. Summary

12. Davide Benvegnù
Microsoft MVP Visual Studio ALM

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