What is Azure data directory?

What does Azure directory do?

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is a cloud-based identity and access management service. This service helps your employees access external resources, such as Microsoft 365, the Azure portal, and thousands of other SaaS applications.

What is my Azure directory?

Find tenant ID through the Azure portal Select Azure Active Directory. Select Properties. Then, scroll down to the Tenant ID field. Your tenant ID will be in the box.

What is the difference between Active Directory and Azure?

Azure AD is a multi-tenant cloud-based identity and access management solution for the Azure platform. Active Directory (AD) is great at managing traditional on-premise infrastructure and applications. Azure AD is great at managing user access to cloud applications.

What is directory in Azure portal?

The classic portal feature Edit Directory, that allows you to associate an existing subscription to your Azure Active Directory (AAD), is now available in Azure portal. It used to be available only to Service Admins with Microsoft accounts, but now it's available to users with AAD accounts as well.