An overview of Azure Active Directory - （Azure的概述Active Directory -）.docx

Overview Technical ArticleMicrosoft FrancePublished: December 2013 (updated: June 2016) Version: 2.0cAuthor: Philippe Beraud (Microsoft France)Reviewers: Arnaud Jumelet (Microsoft France), Christophe Leroux, Philippe Maurent (Microsoft Corporation)For the latest information on Azure Active Directory, please see /en-us/services/active-directory/Copyright ? 2016Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.Abstract: Identity management, provisioning, role management, and authentication are key services both on-premises and through the (hybrid) cloud. With the Bring Your Own Apps (BYOA) for the cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, the desire to better collaborate a la Facebook with the “social” enterprise, the need to support and integrate with social networks, which leads to a Bring Your Own Identity (BYOI) trend, identity becomes a service where identity “bridges” in the cloud talk to on-premises directories or the directories themselves move and/or are located in the cloud. Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity related capabilities. In the on-premises world, AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is AD reimagined for the cloud, designed to solve for you the new identity and access challenges that come with the shift to a cloud-centric, multi-tenant world. Azure AD can be truly seen as an IdentityManagementasaService (IdMaaS) cloud multi-tenant service. This document is intended for IT professionals, system architects, and developers who are interested in understanding the various options for managing and using identities in their (hybrid) cloud environment based on the Azure AD offerings and how to leverage their related capabilities.Table of ContentsIntroduction4Objectives of this paper5Non-objectives of this paper6Organization of this paper6About the audience6What is Azure AD?7Editions of Azure AD10Anatomy of