Azure AD Connect Flashcards
Azure AD Connect
Designed to facilitate hybrid identities, including interdirectory provisioning from Active Directory to Azure AD
Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync
-an agent that is designed to facilitate hybrid identity goals
-it provides a lightweight interdirectory provisioning experience between Active Directory and Azure AD and is configured via the portal.
Hybrid identity authentication methods
-Password Hash Sync (PHS)
-Pass-Through Authentication (PTA)
-Federation: a set of domains that have established trust, allowing for authentication and authorization
Password Hash Sync
Azure AD Connect Syncs a hash of a user’s password from an on-prem Active Directory instance to a cloud-based Azure AD instance
Pass-Through Authentication
-Allows users to access both on-prem and cloud apps using identical passwords. This feature verifies user’s passwords directly agaisnt the on-prem Active Directory.
-Works seamlesly with Conditional Access features
-Does not store passwords in the cloud
For Azure AD Connect, on the on-prem side you need someone with this role:
Enterprise Admin. to help implement the Azure AD Connect
-You need the Global Adminstrator role on the Azure AD side
You have an existing AD Connect implementation. You have to prevent users from a certain department to be synced to Azure AD. What tool should you use?
Synchronization Rules Editor on the AD connect server