The Azure AD Application Proxy is similar to the on-premises Web Application Proxy role, starting in Windows Server 2012 R2. With this service, you can enable external access for on-premises applications. Azure AD Application Proxy requires an Azure AD Basic or an Azure AD Premium subscription. The connection is made directly with Azure and done through a proxy into the private network, with an application proxy agent installed on the on-premises web application server.
Let's run a very common use case to include a Kerberos on-premises application into our Azure AD Access UI, https://myapps.microsoft.com. We use our existing application to configure the scenario:
- Log in to https://portal.azure.com and choose the Azure Active Directory blade.
- Under Application proxy, we first need to download and install the application proxy agent on our YD1APP01 server.
You don't need to install the agent directly on the application server. It...