Safeguard your organization with Azure AD
Why upgrade from AD FS to Azure AD
What is Azure AD?

Comparing AD FS and Azure AD
Product feature |
Not applicable
|
AD FS capability |
Azure AD capability |
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Not applicable
|
|
|
|
SSO |
SSO |
included
|
included
|
Alternate ID |
Alternate ID |
included
|
included
|
OATH hardware tokens |
OATH hardware tokens |
included
|
included
|
Block legacy authentication |
Block legacy authentication |
included
|
included
|
Identity Protection |
Identity Protection |
not included
|
included
|
Identity Governance |
Identity Governance |
not included
|
included
|
Application provisioning |
Application provisioning |
not included
|
included
|
Brute force and DDoS mitigation |
Brute force and DDoS mitigation |
not included
|
included
|
Mitigate on-premises outages |
Mitigate on-premises outages |
not included
|
included
|
Conditional access |
Conditional access |
not included
|
included
|
99.99% uptime |
99.99% uptime |
not included
|
included
|
"Moving to the cloud with Azure AD has benefitted our employees and our IT department. Our IT department has freed up more resources now that it no longer has to maintain an on-premises server or AD FS."

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How-to guides
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Cloud authentication guidance
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More migration resources
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