AzureAD – Staged rollout

This feature allows you to migrate from federated authentication to cloud authentication by using a staged approach:

Moving away from federated authentication has implications. For example, if you have any of the following:

• an on-premises MFA server => you must be moved to Azure MFA first
• are using smart cards for authentication
• other federation only features

These features should be taken into consideration prior to switching to cloud authentication. Before trying this feature, we suggest you review our guide on choosing the right authentication method. See this table for more details.

• You have an Azure AD tenant with federated domains.
• You have decided to move to either Password Hash Sync + Seamless SSO (Option A), or Pass-through Authentication + Seamless SSO (Option B). Although seamless SSO is optional, we recommend enabling seamless SSO to achieve a silent sign-in experience for users using domain joined machines from inside corporate network.
• You have configured all the appropriate tenant branding and Conditional Access policies you need for users who are being migrated over to cloud authentication.
• If you plan to use Azure Multi-Factor Authentication, we recommend you use converged registration for Self-service Password Reset (SSPR) and Azure MFA to get your users to register their authentication methods once.
• To use this feature, you need to be Global Administrator on your tenant.

To enable Seamless SSO on a specific AD forest, you need to be Domain Administrator.

Articles:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Azure-Active-Directory-Identity/Staged-rollout-to-cloud-authentication-now-in-public-preview/ba-p/827830

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/hybrid/how-to-connect-staged-rollout

Note:

1. Removing the user from the group disables staged rollout for the user.
2. If you wish to disable staged rollout feature, please slide the feature back to ‘OFF’ state to turn off staged rollout.