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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

Summary


In this chapter, you have learned to configure different authentication scenarios using Azure AD and ADFS capabilities. There are many possible combinations, and we can't provide all of them in one chapter. We gave you an introduction and some of our practical tips to get started and guide you in your upcoming journey through this technology. Don't worry; we jump more and more into some different scenarios in the next chapters of this book to give you as much help as possible. Also, look at the code package for the book; you will find additional practical examples from our projects.

In the next chapter, we will explore more Azure AD identity services, such as Azure AD B2B and B2C.