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Authenticate and authorize users and apps by using Microsoft Entra ID

Authenticate and authorize users and apps by using Microsoft Entra ID - Azure Tutorial

From the course: Microsoft Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204) Cert Prep by Microsoft Press

Authenticate and authorize users and apps by using Microsoft Entra ID

There you go. So let's just get started to talk a little bit about, yes, what is Entra ID? So Entra ID, by the way, is formerly known as Microsoft Azure Active Directory. And it's a cloud-based identity and management service that we use for everything that is in Microsoft in the Microsoft Cloud, as we like to call it, that includes 365, includes the Azure portal, Dynamics, but also integrates with a lot of other SaaS applications. And I will repeat again. Third-party SaaS applications, and just to name like a few like, for example, SAP, Salesforce, are just some big names that they have done those integrations. What this means is like our own line of business application that I can integrate with this, those big platforms, they have already integrated their own platforms with this, so that as a user, I can just single signing-on in 365, then I go to Dynamics, then I need to go to Salesforce, and I just use the same identity. So I'm not going to use different ones. And, of course…

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