Azure Active Directory

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management service, which helps your employees sign in and access resources in external resources, such as Microsoft Office 365, the Azure portal, and thousands of other SaaS applications.

Internal resources, such as apps on your corporate network and intranet, along with any cloud apps developed by your own organization.

Azure AD is intended for:

• IT admins. As an IT admin, you can use Azure AD to control access to your apps and your app resources, based on your business requirements.
• App developers. As an app developer, you can use Azure AD as a standards-based approach for adding single sign-on (SSO) to your app, allowing it to work with a user's pre-existing credentials.
• Microsoft 365, Office 365, Azure, or Dynamics CRM Online subscribers. As a subscriber, you're already using Azure AD. Each Microsoft 365, Office 365, Azure, and Dynamics CRM Online tenant is automatically an Azure AD tenant.

Give users seamless access to your apps from any location, on any platform, with single sign-on. Automate workflows for user lifecycle and provisioning. Save time and resources with self-service management.

Safeguard user credentials by enforcing strong authentication and conditional access policies. Efficiently manage your identities by ensuring that the right people have the right access to the right resources.

Get flexible, scalable identity and access management for external users with one identity provider. Customize user journeys and simplify the authentication process for accessing applications.

Accelerate adoption of your application in the enterprise by supporting single sign-on and user provisioning. Reduce sign-in friction and automate the creation, removal and maintenance of user accounts.