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What can be used instead of Active Directory?

Free Microsoft Active Directory Alternatives

• Apache Directory Studio.
• Open LDAP.
• JXplorer.
• FreeIPA.
• Samba.
• 398 Directory Server.
• OpenDJ.
• Zentyal Active Directory.

Is Active Directory needed anymore?

No! You don’t need to continue to leverage Active Directory as you make the move to the cloud. In fact, you don’t need to do a lot of the things the same way you’ve been doing them in the past.

Is LDAP same as Active Directory?

LDAP is a way of speaking to Active Directory. LDAP is a protocol that many different directory services and access management solutions can understand. Active Directory is a directory server that uses the LDAP protocol.

Is Active Directory dying?

The reality is at the ground level, Active Directory and other on premise directory technologies are alive and well. Active Directory and systems like it still add value. People recognize that they don’t need to be replaced by the cloud, but instead, can be enhanced by it.

What does Linux use instead of Active Directory?

LDAP and RADIUS are the best active directory alternatives for Linux and Mac.

Can Samba replace Active Directory?

Samba 4.0 can serve as an Active Directory Domain Controller, provide DNS services, handle Kerberos-based authentication, and administer group policy. When that support arrives, Samba will be truly useful as an Active Directory replacement.

Can Azure replace Active Directory?

Unfortunately, the short answer to that question is no. Azure AD is not a replacement for Active Directory. You can synchronize your on-premises directories (Active Directory or other) to Azure Active Directory but not migrate your computer accounts, group policies, OU etc.

Is Azure AD a replacement for AD?

So Azure AD does not replace AD. AD is great at managing traditional on-premise infrastructure and applications. Azure AD is great at managing user access to cloud applications.

Is Okta an active directory?

The Okta Active Directory (AD) agent enables you to integrate Okta with your on-premise Active Directory (AD). AD integration provides delegated authentication support, user provisioning and de-provisioning. To enable AD integration, you must install the Okta AD agent, and import AD users and groups into Okta.

Is OpenLDAP Active Directory?

OpenLDAP could be called a generic LDAP server similar to many other vendor’s LDAP servers (Fedora DS 389, Oracle Internet Directory, IBM Tivoli Directory Server). Active Directory is a bit more customized for a Microsoft product suite (ie: running a Microsoft domain).

Does Google use Active Directory?

The service uses “actual Microsoft AD” that Google manages for organizations, hosting it on the Google Cloud Platform. It also uses “real Microsoft AD Domain Controllers.” Google is touting its Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory as being supported by a multiple-region datacenter infrastructure.

Is Adfs dead?

For now, it appears ADFS is far from dead. But as we’ve said before, the more you investigate ADFS, the more you might be interested in our favorite alternative: Okta.