Azure and Microsoft 365 scenarios

Microsoft 365 is a suite of apps that help you stay connected and get things done. It includes these tools:

Word. Create documents and improve your writing with built-in intelligent features.
Excel. Simplify complex data and create easy-to-read spreadsheets.
PowerPoint. Easily create polished presentations.
Teams. Bring everyone together in one place to meet, chat, call, and collaborate.
Outlook. Manage your email, calendar, tasks, and contacts in one place.
OneDrive. Save, access, edit, and share files.
Exchange. Work smarter with business-class email and calendaring.
SharePoint. Share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to enhance teamwork, make information easy to find, and collaborate across your organization.
Access. Create database apps easily in formats that best serve your business.
Publisher. Create professional layouts and publish content in a way that suits your audience.
Intune. Secure, deploy, and manage all users, apps, and devices without disrupting your processes.

API access to Microsoft 365 apps and services is facilitated through Microsoft Graph.

This article provides a summary of architectures and solutions that use Azure together with Microsoft 365.

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Solutions across Azure and Microsoft 365

The following articles provide detailed analysis of solutions that feature integration between Azure and Microsoft 365.

Architecture	Summary	Technology focus
Microsoft Entra security for AWS	Learn how Microsoft Entra ID can help secure and protect Amazon Web Services (AWS) identity management and account access. If you already use Microsoft Entra ID for Microsoft 365, this solution is easy to deploy.	Identity
Defender for Cloud Apps and Microsoft Sentinel for AWS	Learn how Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and Microsoft Sentinel can help secure and protect AWS account access and environments. If you already use Microsoft Entra ID for Microsoft 365, this solution is easy to deploy.	Security
Manage Microsoft 365 tenant configuration with Azure DevOps	Learn how to manage Microsoft 365 tenant configuration by using Microsoft365DSC and Azure DevOps.	Web
Power Automate deployment at scale	Learn how to use a hub-and-spoke architectural model to deploy Power Automate parent and child flows. This architecture is for Power Automate workflows that replace SharePoint 2010 workflows, and for new SharePoint Online sites.	Integration
Virtual health on Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare	Learn how to develop a virtual health solution by using Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare brings together capabilities from Microsoft 365, Azure, and other technologies to help healthcare organizations create fast, efficient, and highly secure healthcare solutions.	Web

Architecture	Summary	Technology focus
Interactive price analytics	Use transaction history data to develop a pricing strategy that shows how the demand for your products responds to your prices.	Analytics

Architecture	Summary	Technology focus
Enhanced-security hybrid messaging—client access	Use Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication to enhance your security in a client access scenario that uses Exchange.	Hybrid
Enhanced-security hybrid messaging—mobile access	Use Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication to enhance your security in a mobile access scenario that uses Exchange.	Hybrid
Enhanced-security hybrid messaging—web access	Use Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication to enhance your security in a web access scenario that uses Exchange.	Hybrid

Architecture	Summary	Technology focus
Enterprise-scale disaster recovery	Learn about a large-enterprise architecture for SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, and Linux web servers that runs on an on-premises datacenter and fails over to Azure infrastructure.	Management/Governance
Highly available SharePoint farm	Deploy a highly available SharePoint farm that uses Microsoft Entra ID, a SQL Server Always On instance, and SharePoint resources.	Web
Hybrid SharePoint farm with Microsoft 365	Deliver highly available intranet capability and share hybrid workloads with Microsoft 365 by using SharePoint servers, Microsoft Entra ID, and SQL Server.	Web

Architecture	Summary	Technology focus
Governance of Teams guest users	Learn how to use Teams and Microsoft Entra entitlement management to collaborate with other organizations while maintaining control over resource use.	Identity
Provide security for your Teams channel bot and web app behind a firewall	Provide security for the connection to a Teams channel bot's web app by using Azure Private Link and a private endpoint.	Security