Microsoft Azure is a comprehensive set of services used to build complex infrastructures on Cloud Services.
In this chapter, we are going to explore the Identity and Access Management (IAM) mechanisms to control the resources of the Azure Platform, while discussing the following:
IAM in the current portal
IAM in the Preview portal
Advanced authentication
Despite the definition of old and new, a portal can suggest which one is the future of a platform. In this chapter, we will cover both, so as to let users decide which one to use.
Note
Microsoft Azure Management Portal is a web-based application where Azure subscribers usually go to manage their Cloud resources.
The first Management Portal was a Silverlight-based portal, now no longer used, and it has been replaced with a fully featured web-based application, which is available at https://manage.windowsazure.com. This old portal (at the time of writing this book, it is the current portal) is the...