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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure - Second Edition

By : Jochen Nickel
Book Image

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

Synchronization terms and processes


In this section, we'll discuss and implement the practical use of the synchronization terms and procedures. We'll combine theory directly with practical use. For this reason, we'll install, configure, and run the processes immediately in the Azure AD Connect tool. To use the guidance, you should deploy a virtual machine with the domain controller role enabled.

Build the virtual machine on Azure or your local virtualization platform. An excellent option is to follow the guide at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/enterprise/base-configuration-dev-test-environment with the usage of your free trial Azure or MSDN subscription. We provide you with a complete scripting solution in the code package of the book, or you can follow the instructions in Chapter 7, Deploying Solutions on Azure AD and ADFS.

We use the same domain name you used in Chapter 1Building and Managing Azure Active Directory. In our case, we use the domain name inovitlabs.ch. So, change...