Azure AD Connect: User sign-in - Microsoft Entra (2023)

FAQs

How do I sign into my Azure AD with Microsoft account? ›

In your Azure AD B2C tenant, select User flows. Click the user flow that you want to add the Microsoft identity provider. Under the Social identity providers, select Microsoft Account. Select Save.

Changing the user sign-in method

Run the Azure AD Connect wizard again, and you'll see a list of tasks that you can perform. Select Change user sign-in from the list of tasks. On the next page, you're asked to provide the credentials for Azure AD. On the User sign-in page, select the desired user sign-in.

Alternate login ID allows you to configure a sign-in experience where users can sign-in with an attribute other than their UPN, such as mail. To enable Alternate login ID with Azure AD, no additional configurations steps are needed when using Azure AD Connect. Alternate ID can be configured directly from the wizard.

The Microsoft 365 sign-in page for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), part of Microsoft Entra, supports work or school accounts and Microsoft accounts, but depending on the user's situation, it could be one or the other or both.

You can also access the Azure Active Directory admin center from the Microsoft 365 admin center. In the left navigation pane of the Microsoft 365 admin center, click Admin centers > Azure Active Directory.

Join the computer to Azure AD using the following steps: Settings > Access Work or School > Click Connect > Select “Join this device to Azure Active Directory” > Enter the user's email and password > Select sign in > Click Join > Sign out of the local admin account > Sign in with the AAD account using email/password.

Go to https://login.microsoftonline.com/logout.srf, and then sign out (if you aren't already signed out). Go to https://login.live.com/logout.srf, and then sign out (if you aren't already signed out).

With Azure AD, users can conveniently access all their apps with SSO from any location, on any device, from a centralized and branded portal for a simplified user experience and better productivity.

Does Azure AD provide single sign on? ›

Single sign-on with Azure AD

Enabling SSO with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) means users can sign-in once to access their Microsoft apps and other cloud, SaaS, and on-premises apps with the same credential.

What is Microsoft Entra? Microsoft Entra a family of products that encompasses all identity and access capabilities. Within the Entra family are products such as Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Microsoft Entra Verified ID, and Microsoft Entra Permissions Management.

To enter an alternate set of credentials, right click on any Active Directory domain, and select 'Authentication Credentials...' The resulting dialog will prompt for a username and password combination. Its generally best to enter the username using the familiar 'domain name\username' format.

In Microsoft's Active Directory the User Principal Name (UPN) is the unique sign in name or username, that uniquely identifies a user in the Directory. Microsoft uses Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) for all it's online business services (like Microsoft 365, Office 365, Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Azure, etc.)

There is no difference between the two. Azure users exist in Azure AD and have the same attributes. There is, however, a difference between Hybrid Azure AD users that exist both on-premises and in the cloud, and Azure AD cloud-only users.

Azure AD Domain Services

Because Azure AD DS emulates Active Directory Domain Services in the cloud, it offers many features missing from Azure AD that organizations expect from their local AD: organizational units, group policy objects, domain join, LDAP support, Kerberos and NTLM authentication.

Your Microsoft Account is not your Business Office 365 account, they are two completely different accounts. One is owned by you as an individual and the other is managed by your company.

Microsoft 365 uses Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), a cloud-based user identity and authentication service that is included with your Microsoft 365 subscription, to manage identities and authentication for Microsoft 365.

How Often? Once every 30 minutes, the Azure AD synchronization is triggered, unless it is still processing the last run. Runs generally take less than 10 minutes, but if we need to replace the tool, it can take 2-3 days to get into synchronicity.

Is Azure AD included in Office 365 E3? ›

EMS E3, Microsoft 365 E3, and Microsoft 365 Business Premium includes Azure AD Premium P1.

To open Active Directory Users and Computers, log into a domain controller, and open Server Manager from the Start menu. Now, in the Tools menu in Server Manager, click Active Directory Users and Computers. For more details on accessing Active Directory and other ways to access the admin tools, keep reading!

Unlike SSO, auto login is a password-based authentication and can be used for applications that do not support single sign-on.

With SSO (single sign-on), you don't need to worry about implementing a separate login system; instead, you just provide one password that works across all of your connected accounts. This means users don't have to remember multiple passwords or go through any additional steps when logging into your website or app.

You cannot change the account to any other account without reinstalling Azure AD Connect. If you upgrade to a build from 2017 April or later, then it is supported to change the password on the service account, but you cannot change the account used.

Browse to Azure Active Directory > Devices > Device settings. Select Manage Additional local administrators on all Azure AD joined devices. Select Add assignments then choose the other administrators you want to add and select Add.

You can't just "change" the status from Registered to Joined. They mean different things. A registered device is a personally owned machine that is not connected to Azure AD, it is authenticated locally or through AAD. A joined device is for corporate owned/managed machines that ONLY authenticate through AAD.

Azure AD Connect is used to synchronize user accounts, group memberships, and credential hashes from an on-premises AD DS environment to Azure AD. Attributes of user accounts such as the UPN and on-premises security identifier (SID) are synchronized.

What about licensing? No licensing is needed to install AAD Connect and get all your AD users and groups syncing with AAD. If you include other connectors there is still no licensing required. But if you want to write anything back to AD from Azure AD that requires AAD Premium licensing.

Who can access Azure AD sign in logs? ›

Viewing audit logs is available for features for which you have licenses. If you have a license for a specific feature, you also have access to the audit log information for it. To access the sign-ins activity logs, your tenant must have an Azure AD Premium license associated with it.

AD and SSO are very different; one is an on-prem directory service — the authoritative source of identities, the other a cloud-based, web app identity extension point solution that federates the identities from a core directory to web applications.

Interactive user sign-ins: Sign-ins where a user provides an authentication factor, such as a password, a response through an MFA app, a biometric factor, or a QR code. Non-interactive user sign-ins: Sign-ins performed by a client on behalf of a user.

Azure AD's SSO feature enables users to login to multiple applications via a single pane, which includes both SaaS and on-premises applications. The SSO feature makes it easier for administrators to add new users and services without needing to set up credentials or security groups for each application or service.

I guess we all knew it was coming (after all, Microsoft published message center notification MC477013 in December 2022), but the news that the Microsoft Entra admin center (Figure 1) will replace the Azure AD admin center from April 1, 2023 is yet another example of the ongoing and constant changes in Microsoft 365.

Try Microsoft Entra Permissions Management today

We're offering a free 90-day trial to Permissions Management so that you can run a comprehensive risk assessment and identify the top permission risks across your multicloud infrastructure.

There are two ways to enable a trial or a full product license, self-service and volume licensing. For self-service, navigate to the M365 portal at https://aka.ms/TryPermissionsManagement and purchase licenses or sign up for a free trial. The second way is through Volume Licensing or Enterprise agreements.

Sign in to Microsoft Azure, and then click Browse > Active Directory to go to Azure Management Portal. Towards the bottom of the left menu, click Active Directory and then click Default Directory. On the default directory page, click Applications, and then at the bottom of the menu click ADD to add a new application.

Active Directory can be managed remotely using Microsoft's Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT). With RSAT, IT administrators can remotely manage roles and features in Windows Server from any up-to-date PC running Professional or Enterprise editions of Windows.

On domain members and workstations, local user account password hashes are stored in a local Security Account Manager (SAM) Database located in the registry. They are encrypted using the same encryption and hashing algorithms as Active Directory.

How do I create a login and user in Azure? ›

Microsoft provides three main Identity services - Active Directory, Azure Active Directory and Microsoft Accounts.

On the Management tab, select the Login with Azure AD checkbox in the Azure AD section. Make sure that System assigned managed identity in the Identity section is selected. This action should happen automatically after you enable login with Azure AD. Go through the rest of the experience of creating a virtual machine.

Within Power BI Desktop, username() will return a user in the format of DOMAIN\User and userprincipalname() will return a user in the format of user@contoso.com. Within the Power BI service, username() and userprincipalname() will both return the user's User Principal Name (UPN). This looks similar to an email address.

UPN: An entity performing client requests to some service. Entity may be human or machine. See here. SPN: An entity processing requests for a specific service, e.g., HTTP, LDAP, SSH, etc.

In Active Directory user properties, SAMAccountname is the "User Logon Name (Pre Windows 2000) property. UPN is the User Logon Name property. With Active Directory user source, when a user logs into ZENworks, the typed in username is passed to CASA server.

Microsoft account.

Use your personal Microsoft account to get access to Azure and all consumer-oriented Microsoft products and cloud services, such as Outlook (Hotmail), Messenger, OneDrive, MSN, Xbox LIVE, or Microsoft 365.

At the Azure portal, select Subscriptions. Select the subscription you want to assign and then select Access Control. Select Add to add a user to the subscription. After you add the user to the subscription, you can assign the user a role and the account to which the user will have access.

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service by Microsoft which is widely used for building, testing, deploying and managing applications and services through a global network of data centers that are managed by Microsoft. We need to create a Microsoft Azure account to start using the Azure services.

For Azure AD registered Windows 10/11 devices, take the following steps: Go to Settings > Accounts > Access Work or School. Select the account and select Disconnect. Click on "+ Connect" and register the device again by going through the sign in process.

What is the difference between Azure AD and Azure account? ›

There is no difference between the two. Azure users exist in Azure AD and have the same attributes. There is, however, a difference between Hybrid Azure AD users that exist both on-premises and in the cloud, and Azure AD cloud-only users.

Your Microsoft Account is not your Business Office 365 account, they are two completely different accounts. One is owned by you as an individual and the other is managed by your company.

The primary purpose of a subscription is to provide a common billing paradigm for use of Azure services. A subscription might have one or more tenants, directories, and domains associated with it. A tenant is the organization that owns and manages a specific instance of Microsoft cloud services.

To add an Azure subscription with the same organization and Azure AD tenant as your Microsoft 365 subscription: Sign in to the Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) with your Microsoft 365 Azure AD DC admin, or Global admin account. In the left navigation, click Subscriptions, and then click Add.

Each tenant can have many accounts. Accounts can use multiple subscriptions. Azure AD Tenant determines which account can use which subscription. Azure resources must be tied to a subscription for billing purposes.

There can only be one Service Administrator per Azure subscription. Changing the Service Administrator will behave differently depending on whether the Account Administrator is a Microsoft account or whether it is an Azure AD account (work or school account).

You must have an Intune license to use Intune to manage the devices. Users must have licenses for Windows, Intune, Azure AD, and Windows 365 to use their Cloud PC.

Sign in to the Azure portal in the User Administrator role. Navigate to Azure Active Directory > Users. Select either Create new user or Invite external user from the menu. You can change this setting on the next screen.

How do I join Azure AD domain services to my computer? ›