I do not have much experience with AD in general. I have a web app in Azure and I want to authenticate users in the app using Azure AD and I read a bit about Azure AD B2B option but I simply still do not understand it.
What I do now in steps:
Create a new Azure Directory
In that directory I go to Azure Active Directory (service)
Register my application
Go to Users/all Users/ New guest user and add the users of the application
Job done
What is the difference between me doing this and the Active Directory B2B?
Azure AD business-to-business (B2B) collaboration capabilities enable any organization using Azure AD to work safely and securely with users from any other organization, small or large. Those organizations can be with Azure AD or without, or even with an IT organization or without. +
Organizations using Azure AD can provide access to documents, resources, and applications to their partners, while maintaining complete control over their own corporate data. Developers can use the Azure AD business-to-business APIs to write applications that bring two organizations together in more securely. Also, it's pretty easy for end users to navigate.
Enable users from other organization to access the application is one kind of Azure AD B2B. And the Azure AD B2B is enabled by invite the other users to your organization tenant.
More details bout Azure AD B2B, please refer the link below:
What is Azure AD B2B collaboration
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Looking for ideal solution in Azure AD to automatically sync users between two Azure AD Tenants
The scenario i'm looking for is as follows
Corporate and our business project has separate Azure AD Tenants
Want to leverage Corp Azure AD to sync internal users directly to my projects Azure AD to avoid onboarding all new ppl into the company
When some internal employee leaves, sync off-boarding as well so that if Corp removes someone from Azure AD, it gets removed from my Projects AD as well
What are the best options for me ?
Azure B2B sync using external identities
Azure Lighthouse
Others ?
Can users be automatically synced without them requiring to click some activation/invitation link in emails ? Can this be fully automated without "invite link emails " etc ?
Looking for some assistance
AADConnect(AzureAD connect) can synchronize the same users, groups, and contacts from a single Active Directory to multiple Azure AD tenants.
These tenants can be in different Azure environments.
You will need to deploy an AADConnect server for every Azure AD tenant you want to synchronize to.
Note: One AADConnect server can synchronize to not more than one Azure AD tenant.
Reference:sync ad objects to multiple azure ad tenants
Also see use-scim-to-provision-users-and-groups
How can i have an option where users can register for an account in azure active directory if they don't already have an account using their own email? Currently i can only see an option to manually add users in through azure portal but I want to be able to allow users to register to my azure active directory programmatically through a .NET web app.
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management service, which helps your employees sign in and access resources.
That means you need to manage the users under your organization's tenant.
All the users are employees of a company. Only in this way can users be managed easily under the same tenant.
So you need create accounts for your employees. There is not a option to make them register to Azure AD. I believe every company will provide work accounts to employees rather than asking employees to register.
If you want to work with your customers, let them register with your tenants, you should consider Azure AD B2C. It provides business-to-customer identity as a service, which allows customers to register for an account in Azure AD B2C tenant.
Azure AD have B2B collaboration for inviting external users.
But what if i wan't to invite an external Azure service that have a MSI.
Is it possible to create an Azure AD group and add a external(another subscription/tenant in Azure) MSI which i can then use to grant access to resources?
Say I wan't to allow a B2B partners Data Factory access to SQL database of ours and I do not wan't to give them a SQL Login.
MSIs are service principals which cannot be invited to other tenants. They are always tenant-specific.
The scenario sounds like you need to give access to something connected to your tenant.
I would suggest creating an App registration (Application),
adding a key, and giving those credentials to the other service.
You can then give the application access to your Azure subscription etc.
What am I missing here? I'm thinking of moving my data center to Azure. I've created a corporate virtual network that has my ADs, my certificates, basically the family jewels of the company that I'm trying to build in the cloud. I've plugged up every obvious security hole that I can think of except one: the login to the Azure Portal is just a simple user id/password. If someone picked off my Microsoft Live user id, all they need is a password cracker. And a disgruntled or dismissed employee could easily cause havoc. Is there some way to lock down the portal? Does anyone in the security business think these Azure web sites are secure?
You can use Azure AD to properly secure the portal authentication. Azure AD is designed to securely authenticate applications in the cloud and it is supported by the majority of Microsoft solutions like Azure Portal. It will provide features like MFA, access control, self-service password reset, etc.
Although Microsoft Accounts also support some of these features, you can't force your users to specific policies, that's why Azure AD is important for enterprise level security.
Once you create a directory for your company through Azure Portal and synchronize your AD objects with Azure AD using the AAD Connect tool you will be able to login to Azure Portal using your corporate credentials and force users to use Multi-factor authentication or even apply other policies.
Azure Active Directory features and capabilities
Azure Active Directory Hybrid Identity Design Considerations
Integrating your on-premises identities with Azure Active Directory
Could you please define cloud based authentication services Azure AD B2C and B2B with it's uses and their differences if any. Please provide list of web resources if you can.
The uses of Azure AD B2C (Business to Consumer) and Azure AD B2B (Business to Business) are very different. These differences are highlighted in the documentation.
B2C documentation: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/services/active-directory-b2c/
Azure Active Directory B2C is a highly available, global, identity management service for consumer-facing applications that scales to hundreds of millions of identities.
In a nutshell, it allows you to authenticate customers using social identities, like Facebook or Microsoft Account, but still within the context of Azure AD.
B2B documentation: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/documentation/articles/active-directory-b2b-collaboration-overview/
Azure AD B2B collaboration lets you enable access to your corporate applications from partner-managed identities. You can create cross-company relationships by inviting and authorizing users from partner companies to access your resources.
In a nutshell, it allows you to authenticate corporate users from other companies.
So one is for consumer-facing applications, and one is for business applications.
https://predica.pl/blog/azure-ad-b2b-b2c-puzzled-out/
Azure AD is an identity as a service provider aimed at organization users to provide and control access to cloud resources
Azure AD B2B is not a separate service but a feature in Azure AD. It allows cross-organization collaboration in applications from an identity standpoint.
Azure AD B2C is an independent service for building a consumer application identity repository. If you need a service to handle email or Facebook login – it is there for you.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/b2b/compare-with-b2c
B2B collaboration capabilities
Single sign-on (SSO) to all Azure AD-connected apps is supported. For example, you can provide access to Office 365 or on-premises apps, and to other SaaS apps such as Salesforce or Workday.
Partner lifecycle: Managed by the host/inviting organization.
Azure AD B2C stand-alone offering
SSO to customer owned apps within the Azure AD B2C tenants is supported. SSO to Office 365 or to other Microsoft and non-Microsoft SaaS apps is not supported.
Customer lifecycle: Self-serve or managed by the application.