Application authentication

Azure Active Directory is a Microsoft identity manager and is used to create intelligence-driven access policies that are used to secure Azure resources.  Every Tenant created in Azure is backed by an Azure Active Directory, which assists in the Role-Based Access Control, or RBAC, which is the identity model that Azure resource leverage for security.  It is shared between both SaaS based solutions such as Office 365 and IaaS/PaaS based solutions such as App Services/VMs in Azure.  Here, you can see the basic flow of a user authenticating:

Basic Login Flow
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