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Reputation: 3637

Office 365 authentication: relationship with Azure?

I'm somewhat confused about the relationship between office 365 authentication and azure and specifically azure AD. What if a company also own an azure subscription, is the azure AD that authenticates when accessing the azure subscription the same? Is it different? Can it be different? Also what if your azure hosted application needs to authenticate and authorize a different set of users from those enabled to the azure subscription, is there an "application mode" active directory for this? I would appreciate some help in clarifying the relationships and better define the boundaries.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 298

Answers (1)

Shawn Tabrizi
Shawn Tabrizi

Reputation: 12434

  • Office 365 accounts are backed by Azure Active Directory. i.e. when you sign into your Office 365 account, you are using an identity stored in Azure Active Directory. Read more...

  • An Azure Active Directory Tenant can have multiple Azure Subscriptions within it. You can use the same Azure Active Directory account to access these different Azure Subscriptions assuming they are all contained within the same tenant. Read more...

  • It is possible for a user to be a part of multiple tenants and subscriptions using guest accounts. Read more...

  • Azure Active Directory Applications support multi-tenant authentication, which means that it can automatically handle users from multiple different tenants without much effort. Read more...

Upvotes: 1

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