Hybrid Identity Management

 

Microsoft has a rich history in identity management through Windows Server Active Directory and Forefront Identity Manager, and now it’s expanded to include cloud-based identity and access management solutions on Azure Active Directory, providing you a powerful set of hybrid identity solutions.

	Guide	How can this guide help you?
	Azure Active Directory Hybrid Identity Design Considerations Guide	Design considerations This guide helps you understand how to design a hybrid identity solution that best fits the unique business and technology needs for your organization. This guide details specific design steps and tasks and presents relevant technologies and feature options available to organizations to meet functional and service quality (such as availability, scalability, performance, manageability, and security) requirements.
	Manage identities for single-forest hybrid environments using on-premises authentication	Solution This guide provides prescriptive guidance about how to integrate an on-premises directory with a cloud directory so that users can easily access applications that reside in the cloud from anywhere and any device. This is done using on-premises authentication.
	Manage identities for single-forest hybrid environments using cloud authentication	Solution This guide provides prescriptive guidance about how to integrate an on-premises directory with a cloud directory so that users can easily access applications that reside in the cloud from anywhere and any device. This is done using cloud authentication.

Relevant resources

• Cloud Identity Blog

• Forefront Identity Manager Forum

• Azure Forums