Active Directory was designed to help IT provide secure access to enterprise networks, but its architecture has never lent itself to providing business partners and other external users with access to ...

Office 365 customers can use Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) for free, although some of its capabilities entail paying for subscription costs. Office 365 has its own local directory. There's no ...

Last December, Microsoft delivered an updated and much-changed test build of a tool called Azure AD Connect that was designed to connect Active Directory on premises and various directories in the ...