Introduction
With more services available online and in the cloud, organizations are finding that they also need to define and manage cloud identities. As with on-premises identities, you can use cloud identities to authenticate and authorize users when they try to access resources. Microsoft Entra ID is a cloud-based service, where the primary purpose is to provide identity management, authentication, and access-control capabilities for other cloud-based applications.
After this module, you should be able to:
- Describe Microsoft Entra ID.
- Compare Microsoft Entra ID to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).
- Describe how Microsoft Entra ID is used as a directory for cloud apps.
- Describe Microsoft Entra ID P1 and P2.
- Describe Microsoft Entra Domain Services.