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Enterprise Application vs Application Registration

This may be a noob question, but I am trying to find my way around Azure. In my dashboard, I can see 2 options, "Enterprise Applications" and "App registrations". How do they differ. What would an application registered under "Enterprise Applications" do differently than an application registered under "App registrations"? I can't seem to find any article related to this. Since I do not have the required permission on our Organization's cloud, can't play around much either.

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SaurabhSharma-msft answered SaiTheodore-2651 commented

Hi @saitheodore-2651,

Thanks for using Microsoft Q&A !!

When you register any application in Azure Active Directory from Azure portal, an "Application" Object and a "Service Principal" gets automatically created in your tenant/directory.
An "Application object" acts as a template to create one or more service principals and the "Application Registration" page on Azure Portal lists all application objects and helps you manage the applications objects of your tenant.

Enterprise Applications list all "Service Principals" which gets created either by application registration process or by consent process. So, if your application is a single tenant application then only one service principal is created in your application tenant. When you register an application as a multi-tenant then corresponding service principals are created in each and every tenant where the tenant user consents to use your registered application.

Please refer to Application and service principal objects in Azure Active Directory which will provide you detailed information about the same.

Hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Thanks
Saurabh


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Thanks a lot for the explanation.

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