From the course: Microsoft Entra ID: Basics

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Creating an Entra ID tenant

Creating an Entra ID tenant

- [Instructor] Okay, first things first, before I start poking around the Azure Portal, here's what you need to know. You've heard of the word tenant quite a few times so far, but what does it exactly mean? In a Windows Server environment, what we typically have is a forest. A tenant in Azure AD is its equivalent counterpart in the cloud. That's probably the best way to describe it. And I say equivalent because if we look at the bigger picture, they're almost similar in function, with the exception of a few minor differences. Let's look at a comparison of the similarities and differences to better understand the concept of a tenant in Azure AD and how it's created. An administrator manually creates a forest during the installation of the first instance of AD DS on the network. On the other hand, a default directory or a default Azure AD tenant is automatically created when we sign up for an Azure subscription. We don't have to do anything in particular manually. During the AD DS…

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