IT:AD:O365:HowYo:Understand Identity Management

Office 365 Identity relies on Azure AD for managing identity:

And therefore can provide the 3 models that Azure AD can: * Cloud Identity * Synchronized Identity (providing “Same Sign On” via AD Connect) * Federated Identity (providing “Single Sign On” via AD Connect)

• Cloud identity:
  • Using Azure AD only
• Synchronized identity:

  • Sync Azure AD to on-premises Windows AD
  • manage your users on-premises.
  • “Same Sign On” provided by synchronizing passwords (but does not provide SSO across devices and cloud)

  * Federated identity:

  • Sync Azure AD to on-premises Windows AD
  • manage your users on-premises.
  • “Single Sign On” provided by Federating passwords (and does provide SSO across devices and cloud)