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Azure AD Premium vs Azure AD

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We all know now that you need DirSync to synchronize you’re On-Premises users attributes to the free Azure AD. But there is something else on the market that maybe you never heard. TheAzure AD Premium According to MSDN, Azure AD Premium has more advanced capabilities to help streamline Enterprise-level administrative tasks and make an admins life easier. With the Premium edition of Azure AD you get all of the capabilities that Free has to offer, plus feature-rich Enterprise-level identity management capabilities explained below. There is also a table on MSDN comparing the Free and Premium editions of the Windows Azure AD’s. Therefore please refer to this site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn532272.aspx To make it simple and easy:

  • Active Directory Free – With the Free edition of Azure AD you can manage user accounts, synchronize with on-premises directories, get single sign on across Azure, Office 365 and thousands of popular SaaS applications like Salesforce, Workday, Concur, DocuSign, Google Apps, Box, Service Now, Dropbox, and more.
  • Active Directory Premium – With the Premium edition of Azure AD you get all of the capabilities that Free has to offer, plus feature-rich Enterprise-level identity management capabilities explained below.