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Understand Entra ID Domain Services

Understand Entra ID Domain Services

From the course: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Cert Prep: 2 Azure Architecture and Security

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Understand Entra ID Domain Services

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- [Instructor] In the last video, I mentioned Azure AD enables developers to build modern applications using modern protocols. But how do we support traditional legacy applications? For that, we have Azure AD Domain Services. This service is specifically designed for applications that require traditional directory server services in the cloud. Directory-aware applications are those that require a directory server on-premises and the previous generation of protocols to function. When you migrate these legacy directory-aware applications to the cloud, Azure AD Domain Services offers those traditional dependencies to the application, but in the modern cloud environment. The ideal method would be to refactor or recode the application to use modern protocols that the cloud offers because they are better. But there are cases where refactoring the application to modern is not possible. Like if the application developers are no longer with the company, or you don't have access to the…

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