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Authentication options with Azure AD

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Authentication options with Azure AD

- [Instructor] That sign-in prompt that we saw when we looked at how end users signs into Azure Active Directory has a number of different ways that can actually work under the covers. There's about five different ways that you can actually configure Azure Active Directory Connect end users sign in. And which one you choose, I really going to depend on a lot of your business and technical requirements. We'll talk a little bit about what those are. The first option that's really simple, and this is great if you're a small business or you have no on-premises infrastructure, is actually what's called Cloud-only Authentication. And what happens there, if you think back to our architecture discussion, where we had Azure AD Connect and Active Directory on-premises, we take the on-premises Active Directory completely out of the picture, and we make Azure Active Directory authoritative for your users and passwords. They means they typically only exist in Azure Active Directory. And if, like I…

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