1. AZURE ACTIVE DIRECTORY Abdullah Zaib Software Engineer Azure AD, Microsoft

2. Takeaways ■What is Azure Active Directory (AAD)? ■Why Azure Active Directory? ■How do you use Azure Active Directory?

3. What is Azure Active Directory? ■What is an active directory? ■It’s a hierarchal structure that has information about all the objects, Users, Groups etc. in an organization’s network. ■It’s a software to arrange, store information; provides access based on that information. ■Azure AD is the identity provider, responsible for verifying the identity of users and applications that exist in an organization’s directory.

5. Why Azure AD? ■Simplicity: Exposed with simple REST APIs. Standard Protocols (OAuth2, OpenID) ■Build Web and Mobile Apps Faster ■Highly available (99.9% SLA) ■Integration made simple

6. Why Azure AD? … ■Enterprise ready ■ Manage users and access to cloud resources ■ Provide single-sign-on (SSO) across your cloud applications ■ Reduce risks by enabling multi-factor authentication ■ Secure ■ Outsourcing all this to a service (AAD)

7. Hyper scale Infrastructure 28 Regions Worldwide, 22 ONLINE…huge capacity around the world…growing every year 100+ datacenters Top 3 networks in the world 2x AWS, 7x Google DC Regions G Series – Largest VM in World, 32 cores, 448GB Ram, SSD… Operatio nal Announced/Not Operational Central US Iowa West US Califor nia East US Virgini a US Gov Virginia North Central US Illinois US Gov Iowa South Central US Texas Brazil South Sao Paulo State West Europe Netherland s China North * Beijing China South * Shanghai Japan East Tokyo, Saitama Japan West Osaka India South Chennai East Asia Hong Kong SE Asia Singap ore Australia South East Victoria Australia East New South Wales * Operated by 21Vianet ** Data Stewardship by Deutsche Telekom India Central Pune Canada East Quebec City Canada Central Toronto India West Mumbai Germany North East ** Magdeburg Germany Central ** Frankfurt North Europe Ireland East US 2 Virginia United Kingdom Regions United Kingdom Regions

8. How do you use AAD? This is one of the common scenarios.

9. Demo ■References ■https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-code- samples/#web-browser-to-web-application

10. How do you access directory data? ■Rest APIs –Graph API (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/hh974476.aspx) –Microsoft Graph (https://graph.microsoft.io/en-us/)

11. Questions?