
close
close
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:
advertisment
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:
advertisment
Azure AD Connect Health for Active Directory Domain Services console [Image Credit: Microsoft]
More from Aidan Finn
advertisment
Petri Newsletters
Whether it’s Security or Cloud Computing, we have the know-how for you. Sign up for our newsletters here.
advertisment
More in Cloud Computing
Use Azure ExpressRoute Private Peering & Azure Virtual WAN to Connect Privately to Microsoft 365
Apr 21, 2022 | Flo Fox
Microsoft to Make Changes to Cloud Licensing Restrictions after Customer Complaints
Apr 18, 2022 | Rabia Noureen
Most popular on petri
Log in to save content to your profile.
Article saved!
Access saved content from your profile page. View Saved
Join The Conversation
Create a free account today to participate in forum conversations, comment on posts and more.
Copyright ©2019 BWW Media Group