Tag: Passthrough Authentication (PTA)

Are you looking for information about passthrough authentication in Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365? In this archive you will find all our posts about passthrough authentication.

Installation and configuration Azure Active Directory Cloud Sync

By Oliver Müller

On 25. June 2022

In Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure

Azure Active Directory Cloud Sync is a software that synchronizes objects from Active Directory to Azure Active Directory.
Azure AD Connect cloud synchronization orchestrates the provisioning of AD objects to Azure AD in Microsoft Online Services. Locally only a simple agent is needed.

The entire synchronization configuration is set up in the Azure Portal (https://portal.azure.com). Azure AD Cloud Sync supports high availability by installing the agent on multiple servers.

This tutorial describes how to install and configure Azure AD Cloud Sync.

Azure AD Connect: Migration from Passthrough Authentication (PTA) to Password Hash Synchronization (PHS)

By Oliver Müller

On 24. December 2021

In Microsoft Azure

Migrating from Passthrough Authentication to Password Hash Sync (PHS) synchronizes passwords from the on-premises Active Directory instance to Azure AD.

This is a considerable gain in convenience for users. From now on, they can sign in with the same credentials (user name, password and optionally with multi-factor authentication).
This increases productivity and at the same time reduces user support costs.