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Jul 20, 2023

Remote User Authentication (e.g. F5 admins) using Azure Active Directory

Hi! Is there an option to integrate F5 to authenticate F5 admins, auditors, etc. with Azure Active Direcoty? We need to have UserDB taken from there This is the only article I found - but it talks...
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User auth via AAD
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    Jul 20, 2023

    If you configure Microsoft AD DS then you can use LDAP calls to Microsoft AAD. LDAP has always been supported by F5 Networks for admin auth. So you would use that as normal. HOWEVER, you need to configure Microsoft AD DS.

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ok. and classic AD to AAD is also possible?

If yes, then which would be simpler to implement?

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Jul 20, 2023

If you configure Microsoft AD DS then you can use LDAP calls to Microsoft AAD. LDAP has always been supported by F5 Networks for admin auth. So you would use that as normal. HOWEVER, you need to configure Microsoft AD DS.

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    Jul 20, 2023

    Thanks a lot!
    I'll go this way then