Windows Azure Active Directory Cartoon

I posted this video on to Channel 9 before Christmas but I can see something has gone wrong with the indexing and it’s pretty undiscoverable on the site. Thought I’d make it known through the blog.

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• Anonymous
  January 14, 2013
  I like the style of your video, very easy for people to follow.  I also just followed you on twitter.  

• Anonymous
  February 07, 2013
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• Anonymous
  February 07, 2013
  Hi Tony, Wow - you really are passionate about federation - that's good to see. I don't think you'd put AD (traditional AD) in the cloud if the only service you were consuming was ofice365. It has its own directory (which is now called Azure AD). So there's no need for it - it's all part of Office365 in the first place. But let's say you have some cloud apps, a few other internet connected apps PLUS office 365, then obviously federation is the answer - exactly the point you make. But if you are a small organisation with a small number of users then the IT burden of building an internal AD to federate with these external services would be pretty huge. The service management - like for example if the local ADFS server went down, then you'd not be able to access any federated services - that's a pretty big risk for a small business. The non-enterprise size businesses have been asking Microsoft for a few years now if we could provide a way for them to do this but in the cloud so that we run the infrastructure and they consume its services. So think of it more for the organisation that doesn't own and operate its own AD and federation infrastructure. If you think about it - in the on-premises world, to federate your AD with Office 365, you need an ADFS server. But you also need a proxy so that your road-warriors can also authenticate. But of course that's risky, so you need a minimum of 2 of each server in case of failures. The burden of these extra 4 servers on a small organisation would probably be substantial. To a large enterprise, it's just a case of expanding the existing infrastructure. To a smaller company - especially say one in the 10-user area - it's just not tenable. So - yes, I wholeheartedy agree with your point that the world is moving toward federation. It'd be a shame to lock the smaller business out of that opportunity - so the cloud is used to deliver the directory/federation service and take away almost all of the aspects of service management. I think that's perfect for the business that doesn't have an IT person on its staff... If the only businesses in the world were big companies with IT departments - I'd be 110% on your side so I can exactly see where you are coming from.

• Anonymous
  February 07, 2013
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• Anonymous
  March 08, 2013
  If your a small business why put AD onsite and then have to deal with federation, security general management etc. why have any infrastructure on site for that matter. I strongly believe that an integrate cloud experience covering O365, InTune, Azure with WAAD will be a boon for many a small business. Keep up the good work Kind regards Paul

• Anonymous
  March 08, 2013
  Hi mrpaulb, Yes I agree. I think Tony probably works in a large company with a big on-premises infrastructure. For him federated identities make perfect sense. The identities in WAAD for a small business are still in essence federated, it's just that the claims store is running up in the cloud as Is the IP. For a small business, I think the more infrastructure you can put in the cloud, the better.

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  October 23, 2014
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