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Swaminath Audiyapatham's avatar
Swaminath Audiyapatham
Copper Contributor
Jan 17, 2018

I believe sharepoint is the primary service which integrates all services in Office 365 ?

Hi Everyone,   I think in O365, share point is the primary services which integrates all the other services. And azure AD is just an IDP which authenticates and provides service authentication to...
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Cian Allner's avatar
Cian Allner
Silver Contributor
Jan 17, 2018

Interesting question, depends on how you are looking at it I suppose. Worth considering the role of Office 365 Groups as well as the cross-application membership service in Office 365. Not sure if these slides make things clearer?

 

 

 

Azure AD can be used for a lot of things depending on the edition and how it's implemented.  Here is a bit more specifics pertaining to Office 365 - https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Understanding-Office-365-identity-and-Azure-Active-Directory-06a189e7-5ec6-4af2-94bf-a22ea225a7a9.  

 

 

Taking Microsoft Teams as an example, the role of SharePoint and Office 365 Groups are discussed here:

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/sharepoint-onedrive-interact

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/office-365-groups