May 27 2020
For most of 2019, I was digging into Office 365 and Azure AD and looking at features as part of the development of the new Trimarc Microsoft Cloud Security Assessment which focuses on improving customer Microsoft Office 365 and Azure AD security posture. As I went through each of them, I found one that was …
Jan 12 2020
Many are familiar with Active Directory, the on-premises directory and authentication system that is available with Windows Server, but exactly what is Azure Active Directory? Azure Active Directory (Azure AD or AAD) is a multi-tenant cloud directory and authentication service. Azure AD is the directory service that Office 365 (and Azure) leverages for account, groups, …
Sep 30 2014
Azure is big. It’s really big. Seriously, it’s hard to comprehend just how big it really is. (Apologies to Douglas Adams.) In July of last year, then-CEO Steve Ballmer stated that Azure data centers held “comfortably over a million physical servers.” Last year, Azure server purchases accounted for 17% of all server purchases worldwide. …
Sep 24 2014
Over 2.9 Million Organizations are using Azure Active Directory More than 10 Billion Authentications per week Azure Active Directory is spread out across 14 data centers Contains more than 240 million user accounts Organizations using Azure Active Directory across 127 countries Supports over 1400 integrated third-party apps Azure AD Statistics
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