{"id":38307,"date":"2023-07-26T14:39:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T12:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstattribute.com\/?p=38307"},"modified":"2025-09-05T11:32:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:32:52","slug":"the-future-of-active-directory-where-will-ad-go-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstattribute.com\/en\/news\/the-future-of-active-directory-where-will-ad-go-from-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of Active Directory: Where will AD go from here?"},"content":{"rendered":"

More and more companies are relying on services in the cloud, for example in Microsoft Azure. Azure AD is used for authentication and security. In this context, the question arises as to the future of on-premises Active Directory.<\/p>\n

First of all, no one needs to worry about this at the moment. Microsoft is not planning to eliminate Active Directory. That would not be so easy either.<\/p>\n

The structure of Azure AD differs significantly from the structure of local AD environments. Azure AD relies primarily on Security Assertion Markup Language\/SAML and Open Authorization. To confirm identity, Azure AD supports various MFA methods. These include the Microsoft Authenticator app, OAuth tokens or FIDO2 security keys. Locally operated and older applications often cannot handle these. For this reason, it is currently almost impossible to imagine many environments without a local AD.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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