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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

How Azure AD Connect Health works


Azure AD Connect Health offers you the ability to monitor and gain insights into the identity infrastructure used to extend on-premises identities to Azure Active Directory and Office 365. You can view alerts, performance information, usage patterns, and configuration settings; it enables you to maintain a reliable connection to Office 365 and much more. This is accomplished by using an agent that's installed on the targeted servers.

The diagram that follows shows how Azure AD Connect Health communicates. It also shows the components that are currently supported:

  • Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS) 2008R2 up to 2016
  • Azure AD Connect Version 1.0.9125 or higher
  • Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) and Windows Azure Pack (WAP) 2008R2 up to 2016

Note

You can find the actual support and licensing requirements at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/hybrid/reference-connect-health-faq.

The following diagram shows the architecture of the...