Register device on Azure AD

IT has moved from Datacenter Era to the Cloud Era. Focus of the organizations have been changed from one specific set of vendors to the open world of technology. Since Datacenter came in inception, Identity has played a vital role and always been used to treat as a backbone of IT. Now in the new era of multi-cloud environment, Identity is playing a centric role that itself is a new beginning of Identity that has been extended from IT backbone to user-experience oriented.

Microsoft had played a key role in datacenter era by Windows Server Active Directory and now again playing a crucial role in multi-cloud environment by offering Azure Active Directory. Microsoft Azure Active Directory in not only a directory service but it is a complete cloud service that can fulfill all your identity and authorization needs. However, you may find there are couple of things related to identity that can’t be fulfilled by native AAD features but it is continuously evolving.

In this era, organizations don’t need SME for everything but they need design SME who has board understanding of complete end-to end solution stack starting from infrastructure technologies to application technologies.

I have written a series of blog posts on Microsoft Azure AD and these posts mainly focus on how to do it or you can say step-by-step guides backed by real-time scenarios.

Microsoft Azure Active Directory

Azure AD Connect

SSO to SaaS

Application Proxy

Multi-factor Authentication

Self-service Password Management

Self-service group management

Access Panel/My Apps

Dynamic groups membership

Pricing, Licensing and Support

Group-based licensing

Identity Protection Part I

Identity Protection Part II

Identity Protection Part III

Privileged Identity Management Part I

Privileged Identity Management Part II

Privileged Identity Management Part III

Azure Active Directory Domain Services Part I

Azure Active Directory Domain Services Part II

Azure Active Directory Domain Services Part III

Azure Active Directory Domain Services Part IV

Device Management – Azure AD Registering

Device Management – Azure AD Join

B2B Collaboration

B2B Licensing

B2C

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Above series of blog posts have covered most of the areas of Azure Active Directory. You can bookmark this blog post for any Azure AD need, I’ll try my level best to add new Azure AD related posts in this series.

In the era of cloud-first and mobile-first, organizations embracing bring your own device concept. Control on these devices becomes necessary when these devices use your network, access your applications and data. Apart from BYOD, administrators are also concern about the devices, which are being used by the remote users because these remote users come rarely in the office network and therefore control on these devices become a big-time challenge for the administrators. Azure AD provides a fundamental baseline for device management, it becomes more powerful when combined with MDM (Mobile device management) solution such as Microsoft Intune. You can achieve it either by registering or by joining to Azure AD. Registration can be done for Windows 10, Mac, iOS and Android device while AD join can be done only for Windows 10 devices.

Here are few device configuration settings available at Azure AD Portal.

Under “All devices” you can see all devices that are being registered or joined to the Azure AD.

Under “Device Settings” you can configure settings based on your organization needs.

Once, devices will be added then you see here in “All devices” panel.

Let see how can your users can register their devices to your corporate network. Registration allows administrators to enforce conditional access on these devices to meet security and compliance criteria of your organization. This registration also helps users to access all the applications associated with this account without logging in multiple times.