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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

Azure AD monitoring and logs


In the Azure portal, under the Azure AD blade and the Monitoring section, we also get insights into the Azure platform and the associated on-premises identity infrastructure.

We can view the complete Sign-ins to the several services, as well as Audit logs, additional logs, and diagnostic information. The following screenshot shows the actual Sign-ins to our environment, including the time, user, application, and status. Furthermore, you will see whether the access was protected by a conditional access rule or Azure MFA itself:

By clicking on an entry, you get many more details:

Note

To provide programmatic access to your Azure Active Directory data over the REST-based APIs, you can use this guide: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/reports-monitoring/tutorial-access-api-with-certificates.

You're also able to extend your reporting capabilities with Power BI by clicking the Power BI icon. If you do so, the following screen appears:

  1. Click My organization...