Many of my customers ask me that, and most of the cases I answer with the following: “If you have an Office 365 subscription, then you already have Azure Active Directory”
In addition to that, if they have Azure AD Connect enabled, will mean that their OnPremises users, passwords and groups are being synchronized to Azure Active Directory.
This is the standard case, but then many of my customers want to enable more features, but many of them are only available on Premium version, and yes it incurs an extra cost
Moreover, nowdays we have different types of Azure Active Directory licensing like:
- Azure Active Directory Basic
- Azure Active Directory Premium P1
- Azure Active Directory Premium P2
But, which features has each one of the licenses?
With Azure Active Directory Basic
- Manage users & group memberships in the cloud, and assign licensing
- Sync your on-premises directory using Azure AD Connect
- Cloud Users can reset their own passwords online
- Company branding for the SSO access panel, etc.
- 99.9% uptime SLA
Azure Active Directory Premium P1
- MFA for cloud and OnPremises
- Monitor AD synchronization health in the cloud
- Cloud and OnPremise Users can change their own passwords online
- Advanced security & usage reports
- Self-service group & app management (dynamic groups)
- Run Cloud App Discovery to uncover unmanaged cloud applications running in your environment
Azure Active Directory Premium P2
- Azure Identity Protection
- Privileged Identity Management
So, if you want to more about the Azure Active Directory, you can visit the following link, where you can find more info about it.
Till next time!
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