{"id":1345,"date":"2019-11-25T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inswwdev.azurewebsites.net\/au\/insights\/uncategorized\/identity-and-authentication-the-boss-of-all-bosses\/"},"modified":"2019-11-25T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T01:00:00","slug":"identity-and-authentication-the-boss-of-all-bosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/au\/insights\/geek-speak\/modern-workplace\/identity-and-authentication-the-boss-of-all-bosses\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity and Authentication – The Boss of All Bosses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi folks! Pure Awesomeness back again! Yes, I know it\u2019s been a stupid amount of time since my last blog post but I\u2019m back\u2026back again to pump as much knowledge and wisdom into your cerebrums as one individual with the title of Pure Awesomeness can!<\/span><\/p>\n

So, sit back, relax and begin digesting the content in this blog to know about Identity and Authentication in Office 365! Wait\u2026What? You\u2019re the Exchange guy, right? What is this foreign topic you speak of? Well my humble apprentice, Pure Awesomeness has decided to venture out into the big bad world of Identity and Authentication and take a slight detour from the ever-changing world of Exchange. I mean, let\u2019s face it\u2026without identity and authentication\u2026you\u2019d have no email! <\/span><\/p>\n

Ready for this? Buckle up and enjoy!<\/span><\/p>\n

So, you\u2019ve decided to move your on-premises workloads to Office 365. First of all, awesome decision! Secondly, have you decided on your identity and authentication model? YES\/NO \u2013 Please select one.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you selected YES, proceed to GO, collect $200 and enjoy the benefits of your new identity and authentication model! *Queue the Carlton dance*<\/span><\/p>\n

If you selected NO, read on and prepare to be amazed at all the authentication models available to you at your fingertips\u2026but first!…yes there\u2019s always a first\u2026and yes you knew this was coming\u2026subscribe to Insentragram<\/span>! <\/span><\/p>\n

Identity\u2026what is it? Well, quite simply, it\u2019s who we are and how we are viewed by the world. It\u2019s the same concept when you combine identity with Office 365. Identities in this ever-expanding and changing world tells Office 365 who we are and how we are viewed across this giant platform allows us to gain access to the resources we need to get the job done, whether it be sending that all-important email through Exchange Online or sharing the latest cat meme across a Yammer network or Teams Channel. Yep, identity spans across these workloads as well. <\/span><\/p>\n

But Pure Awesomeness, we want to know more about Yammer and Teams as well! I can help you with one for now. Check out this blog<\/a> by my sidekick Hugh Roberts (we came on board the Insentra train on the same day and almost 3.5 years later, I can call him my sidekick\u2026because I\u2019m just purely awesome).<\/span><\/p>\n

Information about Teams will come in my next blog\u2026no it won\u2019t\u2026yes, it will\u2026maybe\u2026unless my sidekick beats me to it \ud83d\ude1b<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyways, moving on to the topic of the hour\u2026identity.<\/span><\/p>\n

By now you\u2019re probably wondering how I\u2019m supposed to dedicate an entire blog to identity. Well, identity is just one portion of the ever-growing world of Office 365. Combine it with authentication\/sign-in and you have an awesome blog written by a purely awesome individual\u2026me!<\/span><\/p>\n

Ok, here we go\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

With Office 365, you have a few identity\/sign-in models available and I\u2019ll expand on these models as you read on.<\/p>\n

Cloud Only Identities<\/span><\/h3>\n

In a nutshell, identities exist only in the cloud and all edits to these identities are done from the cloud. Meaning, you get married and change your surname\u2026it gets updated in the cloud. You want a new alias email address added called dothebartman@domain.com.au<\/a>… It gets added in the cloud. Pretty simple right? <\/span><\/p>\n

Synchronised Identities<\/span><\/h3>\n

Here\u2019s where things get interesting\u2026in a good way\u2026I promise. So, synchronised identities means that all your identities are synchronising in a synchronous approach to the identity platform where synchro\u2026scratch that\u2026basically, your on-premises Active Directory domain becomes the source of authority and all required accounts synchronise to Office 365 using a toolset called Azure Active Directory Connect (AADC). Everything you were able to do with your account in a cloud only identity model, now can only happen from on-premises, hence the term \u201csource of authority\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

But did you know that AADC has various options available when configuring user sign-in methods? No? Sweet! That\u2019s what this blog is for. See the work of art screenshot below outlining the options available:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t worry, I\u2019ll explain each below but before I do, just know that this is how Microsoft lists the above options, from simple to set up, all the way through to complex:<\/span><\/p>\n