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Introduction To Azure AD Services

In this article, we will provide an introduction to Azure AD services. Let us discuss some of the basics first.

What Does A Software Organization Contain?

A software organization contains the following

An employee.
Resources (like software or hardware).

What Are The Policies Of An Organization?

A policy means the set of rules about which resource can be accessed by which employee.

Authentication And Authorization

Authentication means to check if the user has the right to enter into the system. Authorization means that once the user has entered into the system which resources he/she can access.

Consider an example of an organization with the name "ABC". An employee comes in the morning, swipe his access card and once validated, he can enter into the company’s premises. So, an employee is authenticated.

Once the employee enters the premises of the organization, there are three bays in the building i.e. bay 1, bay 2 and bay 3.

An employee can only enter into the bay 3 if he is a part of the client project. So all the employees who are not the part of the client project are not authorized to enter Bay 3.

What Is An Azure Active Directory?

An Azure active directory is the cloud based service used for the authentication and authorization of SAAS applications.

What Is A Tenant?

A tenant is an organization under which the groups and user accounts are added.

What Is A Service Principals?

It is the access policy for the user in the Azure AD tenant.

Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Wednesday, April 28, 2021

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