Configuring identity providers
As we have already established, Azure AD is a cloud-based authentication service that is used by Microsoft 365, Azure, and all of Microsoft's cloud services and solutions for identity and authentication management. Some companies may have another IAM solution that they are using. Azure AD allows these companies to utilize these providers as part of the B2B authentication relationship as guests on the Azure AD tenant.
Azure AD is built on open source standards and, therefore, can support Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) or WS-Federation. Configuring these direct federation relationships allows users to start collaborating while utilizing their existing identity credentials from their existing identity provider. These relationships are configured within the Azure AD tenant to create this federated B2B relationship between companies.
The users would then access the Azure AD tenant as a guest through the same portal URL that is used in...