Describing the types of identities in Azure AD
Four identity types are found with Azure AD, making up the identity types that you will find in Azure AD. They are as follows:
- Users: These include the member users within the domain and any external/guest users invited to the domain.
- Devices: These are the registered devices to the domain. Generally, these are company-owned and managed devices on Intune.
- Managed Identity: This identity is specific to Azure. These identities are managed using Azure IAM/RBAC.
- Service principals: These are used to provide an identity to Azure resources to authenticate to access other resources.
In the next section, we will discuss the hybrid identity infrastructure and how to use Azure AD identities with identities that are part of an on-premises infrastructure.