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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure - Second Edition

By : Jochen Nickel
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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure - Second Edition

By: Jochen Nickel

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure and its Identity and access management are at the heart of Microsoft's software as service products, including Office 365, Dynamics CRM, and Enterprise Mobility Management. It is crucial to master Microsoft Azure in order to be able to work with the Microsoft Cloud effectively. You’ll begin by identifying the benefits of Microsoft Azure in the field of identity and access management. Working through the functionality of identity and access management as a service, you will get a full overview of the Microsoft strategy. Understanding identity synchronization will help you to provide a well-managed identity. Project scenarios and examples will enable you to understand, troubleshoot, and develop on essential authentication protocols and publishing scenarios. Finally, you will acquire a thorough understanding of Microsoft Information protection technologies.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Azure RMS management with PowerShell


In the following section, we will discuss and use the most important PowerShell commands to configure and manage Azure RMS. You will get a good overview of the features and how to start the configuration.

Azure RMS super users

We will start with the connection to the Azure RMS service and the management of the super users feature. This feature is disabled by default. To use its functionality, we need to enable the feature and assign a mail-enabled group to it. We highly recommend adding the AIP Scanner account permanently to the group, and all the other required users as and when required. It doesn't matter when the user is added to decrypt information from the past.

The Azure RMS super users feature provides the following functionality in Azure RMS:

  • Full control over all rights-protected content that is managed by rights management
  • Full owner rights to super users for all user licenses that are issued by the subscriber's organization
  • Decryption of any rights...