# X-Pack Security and Azure Active Directory

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-security-and-azure-active-directory/90441>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 22, 2017, 11:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-security-and-azure-active-directory/90441 "2017-06-22T11:05:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![mirek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@mirek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mirek)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 11:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-security-and-azure-active-directory/90441/1 "2017-06-22T11:05:10Z")

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Hi

Do you know if X-Pack Security works with **Azure** Acitve Directory?

AFAIK Azure AD is not a full version of on-premise Active Directory (i.e. it's not a domain controller), but I haven't found any information in documentation ( [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/active-directory-realm.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/active-directory-realm.html) )

Did you manage to set up such a integration?

Mirek

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**Author:** ![TimV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timv/32/13162_2.png) [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 1:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-security-and-azure-active-directory/90441/2 "2017-06-23T01:54:58Z")

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> [@mirek](#):
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> Do you know if X-Pack Security works with Azure Acitve Directory?

There is no built-in support for Azure AD, but it should be possible to build a [custom realm](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/custom-realms.html) to interface to Azure AD.

Azure Active Directory doesn't really have much in common with on-premises Active Directory (other than a name and some overlap in the features they provide). Specifically Azure AD _isn't_ an LDAP/X.500 directory, so it is not possible to use the X-Pack AD realm to talk to Azure AD.

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**Author:** ![mirek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@mirek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mirek)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 7:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-security-and-azure-active-directory/90441/3 "2017-06-23T07:44:28Z")

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Thank you @TimV.

My understanding of custom realm is that it requires deployment of custom code writen in Java. Am I right?

Do you know if such a custom realm deployment is possible in Elastic Cloud?

Mirek

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 7:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-security-and-azure-active-directory/90441/4 "2017-07-21T07:44:32Z")

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