Is it possible to use Azure Active Directory to manage my home computers and users? Mainly for user authentication between different devices.

It will be easier to manage user. Currently, I add them the old fashioned way. One by one on each device. Products 70 Special Topics 19 Video Hub Most Active Hubs Microsoft Teams. Security, Compliance and Identity. Microsoft Edge Insider. Azure Databases. Project Bonsai. Education Sector. Microsoft Localization. Microsoft PnP. Healthcare and Life Sciences. Internet of Things IoT. Enabling Remote Work. Small and Medium Business. Humans of IT. Green Tech. MVP Award Program. Video Hub Azure.

Microsoft Business. Microsoft Enterprise. Browse All Community Hubs. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for. Show only Search instead for. Did you mean:. Sign In. Occasional Contributor. Labels: Labels: Azure AD. Loryan Strant. Absolutely, it comes down to what you want to achieve though. I use it for my home, but not for “networking” as all our services and resources are in the cloud as I use AAD for device authentication.

Muhammad Piracha. Yeah, so if they are running Windows 10 you can join them to the AAD and have them authenticate against that. It’s what I have set up for my devices at home. Nice and simple password management. I am going to try it out this week. And post more details later for anyone else interested in this subject.

Jeremy Bradshaw. A Home plan for some small number of users and computers would be nice for this. I’d have my family all hooked up. Education Microsoft in education Office for students Office for schools Deals for students and parents Microsoft Azure in education.

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I have a small home network with an Active Directory domain controller. I’ve worked with AAD in the past — I liked it. But as I am now retired, I cannot afford to pay Azure business rates for this service. We have an Office Home 5-user subscription, and we use OneDrive, but to my knowledge, those things do not provide such a service. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn’t help. Thanks for your feedback. I do not believe it includes AAD services, does it?

So, what’s my next step to resolve this issue? Should I be posting in another forum, perhaps? Is there any other way to get the sort of authentication management AD provides, for a small network? Homegroups don’t seem to be substiture, so far as I can see.

Thank you very much, Germain. To be honest, I wasn’t sure this should be considered an Office problem at all,. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. Ken Wallewein. I’m not even sure where to ask this question, so if you can offer guidance, that would be great. Is there any way for me to get hosted AD services, or something equivalent, at low cost? This thread is locked.

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Hello Ken! All the bussiness Office subscripcions include Azure AD. Home versions not. You and other admins can use Azure AD to create and manage user and group accounts. Hope it helps! How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to Germain Navas’s post on October 8, Unfortunately not Ken. The cheapest option would be the Bussiness Essentials , which won’t include the desktop apps just the online versions Thank you Germain.

Or am I just plain out of luck, give up now? As far as I know, there are no options. To be honest, I wasn’t sure this should be considered an Office problem at all, — Ken. It might not be a problem, but is a good suggestion anyway. Here is some information on Azure AD Pricing. This is to the main site information.

Regards, Linnell. This site in other languages x.