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Azure AD is one of the most important authentication services for cloud environments. We show you how to delegate authorizations in Azure AD to ensure better security.

Thomas Joos

In the Microsoft world of Azure and Microsoft 365, especially, Azure Active Directory (AD) is an important component for authenticating users. By synchronizing with Active Directory, organizations can also synchronize onpremises credentials to the cloud, enabling single sign-on (SSO) scenarios. As with Active Directory, you need to keep accounts in Azure AD organized and delegate the management of various tasks. Organizational units (OUs) are used for this purpose in Active Directory; Azure AD has something similar to OUs called administrative units (AUs). In this article I’ll show you how to work with AUs for a better way to delegate cloud directory authorizations. Although in general the AUs in Azure AD correspond to the OUs in Active Directory, the two differ significantly. In contrast to AD, the authorization structures in Azure AD…

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ADMIN Network & Security (Digital) - 1 Issue, January/February 2023

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