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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

Configuring additional applications for Azure AD and ADFS


We will continue the deployment and configuration of more business apps to allow you to test the different authentication mechanisms. For our support, we configure ServiceNow with SAML and active user provisioning from Azure AD to ServiceNow:

  1. Navigate to Azure Active Directory | Enterprise Applications and add a New Application:

Adding a new Enterprise application

  1. Choose ServiceNow and add the app from the gallery:

Adding ServiceNow

  1. After adding the application, we will configureSAML to authenticate our users:

Using SAML as an authentication method

  1. In the Basic SAML Configuration, we add our ServiceNow instance information, as shown in the following screenshot:

Configuring the SAML options

The following URIs need to be used:

https://.service-now.com/navpage.do
https://.service-now.com

Note

We will use the automatic configuration method for this chapter.

  1. For the manual configuration tasks, you can download the certificate by using the Base64 option...