Organizations have leveraged Directory Services and Identity Services for years, and they have manifested in the Azure Active Directory in Azure. The Azure Active Directory (AAD), is important for securing services for Azure-based solutions. Before we discuss moving existing applications to Azure in Chapter 2, Moving existing apps to Azure, it is a good practice to synchronize directories so that resources can be shared from on-premise to Azure in hybrid scenarios. A hybrid scenario would be defined as moving your web front-end virtual machines into Azure while your databases' virtual machines remain on-premise. You can leverage Azure Connect to solve the syncing of your on-premise Active Directory ...
Extending Directory Services to Azure
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