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OFFICE 365 10 WWW.ILTANET.ORG | ILTA WHITE PAPER Accessing Resources Across Platforms with Azure by Jon Lilepage Accessing Resources Across Platforms with Azure As Microso's Azure and Office 365 mature, subscriptions for both services continue to grow exponentially. In November 2015, Microso reported 60 million Office 365 accounts active each month; since then Microso reports an additional 27 million Office 365 accounts with projections to exceed the 100 million mark this year. The large numbers early on were mainly aributable to small- to-medium sized businesses taking advantage of cloud services. These were great deals for companies with less than 100 employees: they were cheap, required less maintenance, offered the flexibility to work from anywhere and eliminated messy license agreements. So what is driving the continued increase of subscriptions? Large enterprises. Large enterprises are becoming comfortable not only with the cloud products themselves but also with Microso's security and privacy. All this begs the question of how large companies with resources spread across their on-premise and cloud environments make the user experience positive while accessing resources across both platforms. The answer is Azure Active Directory (AAD). To utilize AAD, though, companies must first know which version best suits their environments. Microso breaks AAD down into AAD Free, AAD Basic and AAD Premium (P1 and P2). A key feature available in every version is Azure AD Connect, formerly known as DirSync. Azure AD Connect synchronizes on-premise Active Directory (AD) with the cloud while AAD runs in hybrid mode. Hybrid mode gives companies plenty of time to test and migrate resources from on-premise to the cloud before fully jumping into the deep end of AAD.

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