Azure AD - Publish Internal Applications Externally, No Firewall Required Securely

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Hi Everyone,

 

This is a feature that has been in Public Preview for some time now and in December we finally went in to General Availability to Azure AD Premium Customers, (soon we shall make it available to Azure AD Basic also).

 

Azure AD Application Proxy is a service that allows you to publish internal applications that are today possibly only accessible internally without you having to open any ports on your firewall inbound, and also allows you to use Azure AD as a Pre-Authentication Method so that you can ensure the user is Authenticated AND has been granted access to the application before the request is allowed to pass through the proxy connector and for the application to be then rendered in the browser to the user.

 

This is an extremely popular feature, with the likes of TMG, ISA etc. going end of life customers needed a way to be able to continue to publish applications externally in a secure way and so at the same time we achieved this and also prevented you from having to open up any ports on the firewall inbound

 

I am sure some of you on here with have plenty of questions so please go ahead and ask them and I will do my best to get back to you as soon as possible. I posted an article up here for you to obtain further information: Azure AD Application Proxy – Publish Internal Applications Externally Secure, No Firewall Req. | James Evans - EduTech's Blog

 

For any of you whom don't have Azure AD Premium or are yet to purchase this via your Enterprise Agreement we recently enabled this for Direct Purchase via the Office 365 Administration Portal. http://www.edutech.me.uk/active-directory/azure-ad-premium-now-available-via-direct-purchase/

 

Enjoy!

 

James.

Edited January 8, 2015 by EduTech