What is Azure AD connect and Azure ADFS? This is what I have understood: Azure ADFS is exposing on premises AD to Azure cloud and Azure AD connect is means to do that. Am I right?
We need to build an application which needs to authenticate users from different clients' AD. They may or may not have exposed their AD to Azure. Can someone please guide how can this problem be solved?
Azure ADFS is exposing on premises AD to Azure cloud and Azure AD connect is means to do that.
AS of now, the way Azure ADFS works, it essentially provides a way for a company to use AD and ADFS services, without having to deploy themselves. Just like how a Azure has Azure Web App will allow you to have a web server without having your own.
Unfortunately, It does not actually connect or integrate or expose your on premise AD. If you want your clients authenticate against multiple IDs, you do it the old fashioned way, by connecting to the on-premises AD directly. You cannot actually route it through Azure.
One thing which you can do (this will be a huge endeavour) is to move the on premises AD to Azure cloud, which can be done using Azure VMs. Now, that would allow your client to get rid of their on premises AD and use the Azure cloud for everything.
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why I need a sync from onpremise AD to Azure AD for azure windows virtual desktop? It stands in the requierments but I do not understand the details why.
Regards
Stefan
Windows Virtual desktop is at time not compatible to run in a cloud only environment with Azure Active Directory only.
There are two options supported.
• Local AD synced with AAD connect to Azure AD
If you already are using a local active directory synced with Azure Ad Connect to Azure AD. This is probably your first choice of setup. You will need to add an Azure VPN to connect your LAN to an Azure Network. The WVD hosts need access to a Domain controller. For the best performance and functions, I also recommend setup of a Virtual domain controller in Azure.
• Azure Domain Services
If you have gone cloud only and deprecated your local AD, Azure offer Azure Domain Services. This is an Azure managed domain that is synced from Azure AD to Azure DS
http://www.tbone.se/2019/08/08/windows-virtual-desktop-part-2-requirements-and-infrastructure-setup/
I am searching around Google about this topic, but I can't find anything that talks about this. We have an ASP.NET WebForms application hosted on premise, and the login authenticate with our Active Directory. I can access the Active Directory outside the office, of course, using a VPN.
However, this application will be migrated to Azure. From Azure, we don't have access to our domain anymore, so we can't query our Active Directory users.
Which options do we have? There's a workaround for this?
Thank you!
You can use Azure AD to create an Active Directory domain in the cloud and connect it to your on-premises Active Directory domain. Azure AD connect integrates your on-premises directories with Azure AD. Refer to this article for more details.
With this solution, you need to setup Azure AD authentication on your app.
Reference:
Integrate on-premises AD with Azure AD.
we have configured azure active directory pass-through authentication . Need to access on premise resources from the azure deployed application. can we do this by configuring application proxy?. so that on premise application authenticated with azure AD. so the communication between azure application and on premise application be seamless. Is it possible?
I'm not entirely sure if I understand you correctly but what you want is probably possible by using Azure Hybrid Connections: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/app-service-hybrid-connections
You install the Hybrid Connector on-prem, e.g. on a VM, and then for instance an Azure App Service can access certain resources on-prem.
Or for anything more advanced you might want to look at Azure VPN (or ExpressRoute in the long run).
We are using on-prem and Azure cloud separately and planning to make connection between on-prem AD and Azure AD by using Azure AD connect or Pass-though authentication (preview).
My question is, If we use Azure AD connect or pass-though ,will there be any need to use Azure application proxy in any case?
Under what scenario/application integration, both application proxy and Azure AD connect/pass-through will be required?
If we use Azure AD connect or pass-though ,will there be any need to
use Azure application proxy in any case?
By default, there is no need to deploy a proxy for Azure AD connect. It depends on your local network, if your On-prem server(AAD connect installed) can connect to the internet direct, we should not deploy the proxy.
Under what scenario/application integration, both application proxy
and Azure AD connect/pass-through will be required?
This table describes the ports and protocols that are required for communication between the Azure AD Connect server and on-premises AD:
More information about hybrid identity required ports and protocols, please refer to this official article.
If your on-prem network can't open those ports, we need to deploy a proxy for it.
What could be the ways to integrate a web application ( on-prem) to another web application (Azure) using azure AD authentication( happening in the background), with out the user being prompted for credentials.
It depends on how your on-premise application authenticated. Based on the description, you want to implement the single sign-on for the on-premise application with the application which protected by Azure AD.
In this scenario, you can deploy ADFS on-premise and make the on-premise web application authenticate by the ADFS. Then we need to enable the trust from the ADFS to Azure AD. After build the federated trust, when the users try to access the web application which protect by Azure AD will redirect to the ADFS, and if the users already authenticate the on-premise application they will not required to enter their credential again. Here is a figure to demonstrate this progress and you can refer more detail about it from this link.
And now, we can use Azure AD connect to integrate your on-premises directories with Azure Active Directory easily. You can refer the video on this link about different settings for this tool.