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Pass-through Authentication - Microsoft Entra ID (Azure Active Directory) Tutorial
From the course: Planning for Microsoft Entra ID
Pass-through Authentication
[Narrator] The third sign in method is Pass-Through Authentication. This is kind of a blend of the previous two methods, if I may dare say that. Similar to the ADFS method, the passwords are not syncronised to the cloud, when a used attempts to sign in on premises, the process is pretty much the same, but if they try to authenticate in The Cloud Azure AD facilitates the log-in process It accepts the password, hashes it, and adds it to a temporary queue to be processed for authentication. At the same time, there's a Pass-Through Authentication agent installed on premises, on the AD connect server, listening for queued authentication requests, in Azure AD. If it finds that there is a request to be processed, it fetches it, and validates it against on premises Active Directory. The whole process happens so fast, that it's almost as if the password just passes through Azure, on its way to on premises. The important…
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