Identity synchronization including PingFederate integration

Microsoft now directly integrates non-Microsoft products into Azure AD Connect. The first one is the integration of PingFederate, which is very popular in the market. There's no change on the directory synchronization—you enable PingFederate as your federation provider instead of ADFS:

The main decision that Microsoft has made with this partnership is to move more and more into the hybrid identity management approach to help you to enable Microsoft and other cloud services quickly.