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Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Azure AD Connect Health, a feature for monitoring the status of your synchronization or federation between on-premises Active Directory (AD) and the cloud-based Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).
Microsoft describes Azure AD Connect Health as a feature that:
… helps you monitor and gain insights into your on-premises identity infrastructure and the synchronization services
Azure AD is used by all of Microsoft’s enterprise cloud services, such as Azure and Office 365, to authenticate and authorize users — many people are unaware that they are using Azure AD’s free version when they deploy Office 365. We can synchronize identity and password hashes from the cloud to Azure AD to get single sign-on with Microsoft’s cloud services and with at least 2,800 third-party cloud services, too, including Microsoft competitors such as SAP, Google, and AWS. The means for enabling this are:
With single sign-on via Azure AD deployed, the health of these solutions becomes critical to the business; therefore, Microsoft created Azure AD Connect Health.
This Azure AD synchronization and federation health monitoring solution from Microsoft is a benefit that customers of Azure AD Premium can avail of.
Azure AD Connect Health concept [Image Credit: Microsoft]
Azure AD Connect Health for ADFS [Image Credit: Microsoft]
Azure AD Connect Health for sync [Image Credit: Microsoft]
Not only can it monitor the health of your connection to Azure AD, but Microsoft also added a preview for monitoring on-premises domain health using Azure AD Connect Health for Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS), a critical element to the functionality of the total identity solution, supporting:
Azure AD Connect Health for Active Directory Domain Services console [Image Credit: Microsoft]
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