Microsoft Active Directory: Managed Services Opportunity

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Indeed, Microsoft is calling on customers to keep Active Directory completely up to date, thereby easing potential transitions from on-premises applications to cloud services like Office 365, Exchange Online and Windows Azure.

While Active Directory dates back more than a decade, maintaining the Microsoft directory service could be an overlooked opportunity for many MSPs.

As Azaleos, a top MSP, puts it:

Meanwhile, MSPmentor is seeing growing integration between Active Directory and MSP-oriented tools and cloud platforms. One recent example: InnerApps recently announced IDSync Connector, which links Active Directory to Autotask. MSPs can use the Active Directory connection to provision system system access, and privileges for users and resources. Similarly, a tool called ConnectActive links ConnectWise to Active Directory.

In many ways, directory services are old news. But sometimes it pays to take a second look at old opportunities for new revenues…