Microsoft wants to bring ActiveDirectory into the cloud

In the next few months, Windows users as well as http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/11208.html ">microsoft Partners will see more about Windows Azure The message for Active directory. This concept is the same as the concept of Microsoft Active Directory on Windows Server systems.

About Active Directory

Active directory is a centralized directory Management Service (directory services) in Microsoft Windows Server that is responsible for the large network environment in the architecture, and is built from Windows Server start Server product, it handles network objects in the organization, objects can be user, group, computer, domain control station, mail, profile, organizational unit, tree system, etc., as long as the object defined in the Active Directory structure definition file (schema) can be stored in the Active Directory file. and accessed using the Active Directory Service Interface, in fact, many Active Directory management tools use this interface to call and use the Active Directory data.

Microsoft News about the Waad (Windows Azure Active Directory) program is also being circulated recently. However, Softies (Microsoft employees claim to be "softie") has rarely disclosed relevant plans under pressure from the company, and since last November Microsoft has leveraged Active Directory management strategies on its own cloud platform.

Microsoft Official plans to release more details about Waad at the upcoming TechEd conference in June. The roadmap for Microsoft's cloud computing prior to this shows that Microsoft will provide some Waad-related features for Azure customers. Users will be able to access their own programs in the cloud with security and use existing Active Directory admin domain members in the cloud. At the same time, enterprises can use Active Directory to seamlessly migrate existing applications to Windows Azure without making any changes.

Office 365 Enterprise users can already use a single sign-on implementation based on Active Directory deployment. The current situation is that the administrator needs ADFS 2.0 (Active Directory Federation Service) and ADSs (Active Directory Sync Service) to maintain the user's online account and password. Microsoft may add more active Directiry single sign-on features to Office 365 this spring.

Windows Azure Active Directory provides the ability to authenticate and access applications and Office365 on Windows Azure as a cloud service. Windows Azure Active Directory makes it easy to deploy enterprise applications in the cloud with sophisticated, enterprise-quality features of Active directory. Enabling single sign-on can effectively enhance the security of your application, ensuring good interoperability in the future with the use of ACS (Access control Service) and existing Active Directory deployments.

Microsoft announced ACS 2.0 last year, and the new version will increase federated capabilities for Web sites and services. Built-in support for ACS 2.0 is also included in the latest update for Azure.

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