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Describe authentication methods in Azure

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Describe authentication methods in Azure

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- [Instructor] So I mentioned that one reason you might want to use AD Domain Services is because you have a legacy system that doesn't support the modern authentication methods used by Azure Active Directory. So what exactly are those modern authentication methods? Well, the first is called single sign-on or SSO. SSO allows you to authenticate using the credentials you used when you signed into your operating system. In other words, you boot your computer, you log in and from then on, you simply use the credentials you logged into the OS with to authenticate to your Azure resources. If you want to authenticate with your on-premises resources using SSO, you can use Azure AD Connect. SSO uses two methods to authenticate users. The first is password hash synchronization. Now, in this method, a user's password is hashed, meaning that a computation converts the password into an encrypted string of characters that's always the…

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