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Microsoft Phasing Out Azure AD 'Classic' Portal in November
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 18, 2017
The so-called "classic" Azure Portal management experience for Azure Active Directory will be retired on Nov. 30, Microsoft said on Monday.
The move will leave organizations using Azure AD with just one main software management interface -- the Azure AD Admin Center, a browser-based management interface that reached "general availability" in May.
The Azure AD Admin Center provides dashboard views of users, groups and sign-ins, as well as application assignments. Surprisingly, it doesn't require having an Azure subscription to use it.
Even though the classic Azure Portal for Azure AD will be going away in a couple of months or so, the classic portal is still needed to carry out some activities. Microsoft's announcement didn't list those dependent activities, but it claimed they'd be part of the Azure AD Admin Center "well before November 30."
Microsoft will also wrap its Azure Information Protection management experience, which controls user access to sensitive information in e-mails and documents, into the Azure Portal.
In addition, Access Control Services, Microsoft's service for authenticating user access to Web apps and services, will move to a new URL. The new URL will be provided "soon," the announcement indicated.
About the Author
Kurt Mackie is senior news producer for 1105 Media's Converge360 group.