AZ-104 Stormwind Studio Certification Course Notes

Day 2.1 - Managing Entra ID

Microsoft Entra ID Concepts

• Entra ID or Azure Active Directory
• Identity
• Account
• Tenancy
• Users
• Groups
• Licensing
• Roles
• Comparing Entra ID to Active Directory Domain Services
  • Cloud to on prem Entra ID Connect
• Supported Editions of Entra ID
• Self-Service Password Reset

Entra ID or Azure Active Directory

• What's in a name?

• Entra ID is Azure Active Directory Renamed

  • You will still see Azure Active Directory in a lot of places
  • Azure Active Directory = Entra ID = AAD

• Entra ID is Microsoft's Cloud first identity provider

• Entra ID manages Users, Groups, Authentication, Roles across a wide array of products and services, such as:

  • Microsoft 365 Products and Services
  • Azure Products and Services
  • On Premise Applications and Resources
  • Cloud Applications from a variety of vendors

• Windows Server Active Directory

  • On-Premises Apps

• AUTH

  • Kerberos
    • NTLM

• Users & Groups Authentication + Authorization

• AUTH

  • SAML Oauth Open ID WS-Federation

• Microsoft Entra ID

  • Azure Resources
  • Azure Apps
  • Microsoft 365