Can Adaxes be used without Active Directory?

Question

We are getting rid of our internal Active Directory. So far the process has gone very well. All of our 250 users have been transitioned to Entra and all of our applicaitons are configured for SSO with Entra. WE LOVE ADAXES (and have recommended it to so many people)! It does such a great job with user management and because we sync our AD accounts to Entra, it also does an excellent job of managing our Entra environment. But what happens when AD is gone. I know that Adaxes can manage cloud accounts, but it still seems to have that reliance on AD. AD is dying a slow death. It's a security nightmare that needs to be eliminated. Keeping an AD environment around to only support Adaxes just doesn't make sense. We have been reluctantly shopping around for a replacement to Adaxes, but nothing compares. Please tells us we can run Adaxes without AD or at the very least you have a cloud only release of Adaxes on the horizon.

Answer 1

Hello,

As of now, Adaxes components can only be installed on computers joined to an on-premises AD domain. There are no plans to change that in the near future. As an option, you can roll out a placeholder on-premises Active Directory domain, join a computer to it, and install Adaxes on the domain-joined computer. Then you can register your Microsoft Entra domain using an application account and manage cloud-only objects in Adaxes. The placeholder domain can reside in Microsoft Entra Domain Services, not only in your on-premises environment.