Updated: July 23, 2020 (March 26, 2018)

Deprecated Identity Components

Wes Miller analyzes and writes about Microsoft’s security, identity management, and systems management technologies. Before joining Directions on Microsoft, Wes... more

Microsoft has retired several identity components recently.

As Microsoft’s hosted identity strategy has begun to center around Azure Active Directory (AAD), Microsoft has discontinued several previously available synchronization tools that provided federation with AAD and third-party identity systems.

Information on the deprecation of previous synchronization tools in favor of AAD Connect is at blogs.technet.com/b/learningittogether/archive/2016/04/18/azure-important-upgrade-dirsync-and-azure-ad-sync-to-azure-ad-connect.aspx.

Recommendations for moving away from Azure Access Control Service are at https://azure.microsoft.com/blog/time-to-migrate-off-access-control-service/.

Feature	Description	Status
AAD Sync	Microsoft’s second on-premises tool to synchronize data from Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) on-premises to the Microsoft-hosted AAD.	Deprecated, and support ended Apr. 2017. Customers should now be using AAD Connect.
DirSync	Microsoft’s

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