AzureAD direct connection (no sync tool) | Voters

AzureAD direct connection (no sync tool)

developing (live in <90 days)

Serena Raymond

Allow for a direct connection between DNSFilter and AzureAD without the installation of a tool.

June 4, 2020

Giles

This is a requirement for any of our installations as we have Azure AD customers that do not have a Windows Server. We would be happy to be a beta tester, if required.

Nick Saunders

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developing (live in <90 days)

We've begun development on a direct integration with Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) to sync Groups and Users. We aim to have the feature in beta and available for testing within 90 days.

We'll post an update when we're ready for beta testers for those that are interested.

Arne

Nick Saunders any update on progress?

Nick Saunders

Arne: This feature is still in progress, our development timeline was delayed due to shifting resources to some other priorities. Our current target is beta availability in Q3 later this year. We know it's an important feature, we appreciate your patience!

Andy

Nick Saunders Any update on this now we are in Q3, we have customer literally waiting for this feature

Nick Saunders

Andy We've made less progress on this feature in Q2 than expected due to resources being diverted on other features such as Microsoft Sentinel support for Data Export. Beta release is looking like Q4 at this point.

Phil

Closer to 90 days since marked as <60 days. Where are you guys with this one?

Steve Staden

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Ryan

Many of our clients do not have servers to run this on as we move to a more serverless environment, with Entra handling all the identity management, and Intune for the devices. Needing to install a sync agent makes no sense in today's day and age

Matt

Cmon y'all...

Arne

Needing a windows instance to run the sync tool for for clients that have gone all in on O365 is very last decade...

Andy

Having to run the tool on PC because we are full cloud and dont have any infrastructure to run it defeats the point. AzureAD needs to be in connection with DNS Filter directly. Needed urgently!

Christopher

It feels like having an AD sync tool, installed on a on-prem server so it can sync with Azure AD, defeats the purpose of using Azure AD in the first place.

Chad Thomas

This is a must! The days of on-prem servers are fading fast, and a SAAS only Azure AD is becoming more and more common

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