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Microsoft Entra ID: Hybrid identities - Microsoft Security Copilot Tutorial

From the course: Microsoft Security Essentials: Concepts, Solutions, and AI-Powered Protection

Microsoft Entra ID: Hybrid identities

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- Although many organizations have moved their workloads to the cloud, a large number of resources still remain on premises. How can we access all resources regardless of their location? We need to use hybrid identities. Traditionally, organizations manage their identities locally for accessing on-premises resources, such as shared drives, servers, and databases. With the migration to the cloud, organizations create cloud-based identities for accessing cloud services, such as virtual machines, containers, and storage. However, these are two separate identity management systems. How can we integrate on-premises and cloud-based identities to enhance productivity and security? This is where hybrid identities come into play. When using Microsoft identity management solutions, companies typically manage on-premises identities with one or more active directories, while cloud-based identities are managed with Microsoft Entra ID. To enable hybrid identities, we need to implement provisioning and synchronization between on-premises and cloud-based identity systems. Provisioning means creating identities across different directory systems, and synchronization ensures identity information remains consistent. We can use a Microsoft Entra cloud sync to implement hybrid identities. By downloading and installing a lightweight agent in their on-premises environment, organizations can use a Microsoft Entra cloud sync to manage identity provisioning and synchronization. Now let's quickly look at hybrid management in the Microsoft Entra Admin Center. Click Microsoft Entra Connect. Here you can learn more about Microsoft Entra cloud sync. Click Manage. You can get started with cloud sync by downloading and installing the provisioning agent.

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