How MIM and Azure AD Connect enables Hybrid Identity

Microsoft cloud capabilities are developing we can see thedestination ever more clearly

Most organizations are still hybrid organizations, and stillneed onpremise AD

MIM is great for organizing onpremises identities, and isan important cloudenable in all but the simplest cases itcan be gradually wound down, but will also persist for sometime

Azure AD Connect is very capable and will be around fromsome time.

HTTP(S) traffice is terminated in the cloud, blocking manyattacks

No incoming connections

Abnormalities detected & reported and autidting byAzure AD

Sign Signon experience from Azure AD to onpremiseapplications

Most organizations are using cloud services (Azure)

Few of them are able to become all cloud. Userstypically have a cloud and an onpremises "persona"(identity)

At leat on ecloud and onepremises persona

Admin: "one" identity to manage, one place.

User: same signon or single signon

Security: consistent and timely identity data

Goverance: knowing what you know about users

Azure AD Connect is to hybrid identity management,what MIM is to onpremises identity management

A free tool which does a lot out of the box

Based on MIM, but it is different and doesmore

Fully supported as an AD/AAD sync engine

Benefits

Consolitating Identities

Managed AuthenticationMethods

Federated Authentication

Seamless SSO

Hybrid Azure AD join

Integrating HR

Admin: one identity to manage

User: same signon

Security: consistent and timely identity data across systems

Governance: knowing what you know about users and their entitlements

MIM's ongoing importance

Maintains cloud identities for the same reason that AD maintainsonpremises identities

Protects identity information and makes it available for anycloud service to use for authentication and authorizationpurposes