Enterprise Mobility Suite Managing BYOD and Company-Owned Devices

Chapter 3. Hybrid identity

Windows Server Active Directory and Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) have long been the standard for on-premises identity management, but in a mobile-first, cloud-first world, the concept of user identity must be expanded to include identity for cloud-based applications and management spanning multiple services. The Microsoft hybrid identity solution spans on-premises and cloud-based capabilities to create a single user identity for authentication and authorization regardless of where the user is. By easily extending your local directories into Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) through directory synchronization, hybrid identity provides users with one username and password to remember and enables authentication ...