Azure Active Directory is the future of users and devices company administration
Updated March 04, 2020
Azure Active Directory is the future of users and devices company administration
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Azure Active Directory
In our company, we use Azure AD as a hybrid with Active Directory Federation Services. In this way, we can maintain a coherent structure of all the local users of the company as well as all our remote users. We do it this way since all our office platform is mounted on Office 365. The entire Azure and AD platform is managed by our IT Department.
- Centralized administration of users through different locations.
- Comprehensive OU management through a single interface.
- Immediate availability of our forest throughout the company.
- Microsoft integrated security throughout the deployment.
- In our case, it requires an AD FS structure which requires extra maintenance.
- The synchronization sometimes takes too long.
- We would like to use Azure AD Premium, but its costs are very high.
- I think the ROI is one of the most remarkable points. Instead of having to invest money in additional hardware and configurations, having all the infrastructure in Microsoft's cloud brings immediate savings in the short and long term
- Less staff, less hardware, and associated costs are lower
- It leaves infrastructure and updates to Microsoft, which gives IT staff much more freedom
We never evaluate other types of products. Since Windows 2000 we have been using Active Directory for the administration and management of our users, devices, and policies. We could certainly see the advances that are produced version by version and I firmly believe that Azure AD is the correct evolution and the way forward. It simplifies our work and manages our structure efficiently and clearly.