What is Azure Active Directory Seamless Single Sign On? (2024)
We’re all dealing with many usernames and passwords in our everyday life, right? Today I’d like to talk about an authentication feature within Azure Active Directory that can help you with easier, faster access.
Azure Active Directory Seamless Single Sign-on (Azure AD Seamless SSO) automatically signs users in when they are on their corporate devices connected to their corporate network. When this is enabled, users don’t have to type their passwords, or even their username, to sign in to Azure Active Directory.
This feature provides users with easy access to cloud-based applications without needing any additional on premises components. First let’s look at how this is set up:
SSO is enabled used Azure AD Connect. The following steps will occur while enabling this feature:
A computer account representing Azure AD is created in your on premises Active Directory in each AD forest.
The computer account Kerberos decryption key is shared securely with Azure AD and then 2 Kerberos service principal names (SPNs) are created to represent 2 URLs that are used during Azure AD sign-on.
When doing authentication from a web browser for a web app, essentially a user navigates to a website and signs into Azure AD (see below).
Azure AD sends a Kerberos requests to on premises AD and on premises AD looks for an account related to the device you’re signing in on and a user account. If authorized, you get access.
For a native client, like Outlook for instance, the process is a bit different (see below).
Here, the request is made from the device you’re using and authenticated off Azure AD, issuing a Kerberos ticket when it is successful.
When that ticket is authenticated off Azure AD and approved, a SAML token is sent to the app. Then it gets sent back to AAD for OAuth-2 authentication.
Once all that checks out, access is granted.
Now let’s talk about the benefits. First, it’s a much better user experience. Users are automatically signed in both on premises and cloud-based applications using their built-in authentication, so there’s no need for users to repeatedly reenter their passwords.
It’s also easy to deploy and administer. There are no additional components needed on premises; it synchronizes your Azure Active Directory to your AD. Plus it works with any method of cloud authentication using password hash synchronization or pass through authentication.
Additionally, it can be rolled out to only some or all of your users by using group policy. So, this is a great way to allow users to have multiple authentications into multiple websites and applications using only one authentication tool. This will minimize the amount of administration required to set up those users once it’s in place. And it should reduce the number of password resets for your help desk team or whomever oversees that.
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Azure Active Directory Seamless Single Sign-on (Azure AD Seamless SSO) automatically signs users in when they are on their corporate devices connected to their corporate network.
Single sign-on (SSO) solutions allow users to login to multiple applications with just one set of credentials, eliminating the hassle and risk of managing different combinations of usernames and passwords. To enable single sign-on with Active Directory, you'll need to use ADFS or a third-party tool.
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It provides a Single Sign-On (SSO) feature, which includes multi-factor authentication and self-service password management. It also provides a number of additional security features, including security monitoring and alerting, and can be configured to detect anomalous logon attempts.
With SSO, a user logs in once, and gains access to all systems without being prompted to log in again at each of them. Active Directory (AD) is a directory service that provides a central location for network administration and security.
Note: Single sign-on is available with the Basic, Plus and Premium subscription plans. To get started, you need a valid subscription to Azure AD. As your identity provider (IdP), Azure handles the sign-in process and provides your users' credentials to TalentLMS.
Single sign-on reduces that cognitive burden. Signing in once also saves time, thus improving employee productivity. Given that 68% of employees switch between ten apps every hour, eliminating multiple logins can save a company considerable time and money.
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The service promotes digital authentication leveraging an existing single-sign-on infrastructure through one's home institution, while maintaining an environment that protects personal data and privacy.
Seamless authentication is a method where the user is authenticated towards an entity without the burden of credential requests. For high security requirements, transparent methods are not applicable, but can provide additional security in traditional username/password or PIN-based sessions.
Azure AD is designed to manage access to cloud-based applications and servers using modern authentication protocols such as SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, and WS-Federation. Azure AD Single Sign-On (SSO) is an Azure AD feature that allows users to conveniently log into SaaS applications.
Both Microsoft tools share SSO-like properties, and they each need to work in tandem with on-prem Active Directory (although Azure AD could possibly be used without). The key difference is that AAD is an identity and access management (IAM) solution while AD FS is a security token service (STS).
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