Introduction
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that provides a wide range of services to its users. In this blog, we will discuss three important concepts in Azure: Azure Tenants, Azure administrator units, and Azure connect.
Azure Tenants
An Azure tenant is a digital representation of your organization and is primarily associated with a domain, like Microsoft.com. It’s an environment managed through Azure Active Directory that enables you to assign users permissions to manage Azure resources and billing. Each tenant is distinct and separate from other tenants.
You can manage tenants associated with your Microsoft Customer Agreement billing account by using the information provided in this article. The article helps you understand and manage tenants, transfer subscriptions, and administer billing ownership while you ensure secure access to your billing environment.
Azure Administrator Units
Azure administrator units are a way to manage access to resources in Azure. They allow you to delegate administrative permissions to specific parts of your organization. This can be useful if you have multiple teams working on different parts of your application.
In organizations with independent divisions, it can be useful to restrict administrative scope by using administrative units. For instance, a large university with autonomous schools (School of Business, School of Engineering, etc.) may have IT admins who control access, manage users, and set policies for their respective schools.
A central administrator could:
- Create an administrative unit for the School of Business.
- Populate the administrative unit with only students and staff within the School of Business.
- Create a role with administrative permissions over only Microsoft Entra users in the School of Business administrative unit.
- Add the business school IT team to the role, along with its scope.
This approach can help ensure that each school’s IT team has control over its own resources while maintaining centralized control over the entire organization.
Azure Connect
Azure Connect is a service that allows you to connect your on-premises active directory infrastructure to the cloud. This can be useful if you have applications that need to access data that is stored on-premises.
Microsoft Entra ID is a cloud-based identity and access management solution that provides several benefits to its users. These include:
- No need to maintain an AD infrastructure in the cloud: Microsoft Entra ID is entirely managed and maintained by Microsoft.
- Same identity information as on-premises: Microsoft Entra ID provides the same identity information that is available on-premises.
- Reduced need for external applications and users to contact the on-premises domain: Authentication can happen in Azure, reducing the need for external applications and users to contact the on-premises domain.
Conclusion
In this blog, we discussed three important concepts in Azure: Azure tents, Azure administrator units, and Azure connect. We hope that this blog has been helpful in understanding these concepts better