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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure

By : Jochen Nickel
Book Image

Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure

By: Jochen Nickel

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure and its Identity and Access Management is at the heart of Microsoft’s Software as a Service, including Office 365, Dynamics CRM, and Enterprise Mobility Management. It is an essential tool to master in order to effectively work with the Microsoft Cloud. Through practical, project based learning this book will impart that mastery. Beginning with the basics of features and licenses, this book quickly moves on to the user and group lifecycle required to design roles and administrative units for role-based access control (RBAC). Learn to design Azure AD to be an identity provider and provide flexible and secure access to SaaS applications. Get to grips with how to configure and manage users, groups, roles, and administrative units to provide a user- and group-based application and self-service access including the audit functionality. Next find out how to take advantage of managing common identities with the Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 and build cloud identities with the Azure AD Connect utility. Construct blueprints with different authentication scenarios including multi-factor authentication. Discover how to configure and manage the identity synchronization and federation environment along with multi -factor authentication, conditional access, and information protection scenarios to apply the required security functionality. Finally, get recommendations for planning and implementing a future-oriented and sustainable identity and access management strategy.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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16. Choosing the Right Technology, Methods, and Future Trends

Delivering password management capabilities


For providing password management capabilities, there are four main feature sets available in a hybrid scenario:

  • Self-Service Password Reset and Account unlock, MIM 2016

  • Password Change Notification Service to synchronize the actual AD password to different repositories, MIM 2016

  • Password Update functionality, ADFS 3.0 and ADFS 4.0

  • Password Self-Service Change, Reset and Account unlock, and AAD

The following figure shows the different capabilities in solution architecture:

What happens when a user resets their password in the cloud?

  1. Check if password write-back services are running. If yes, proceed

    Tip

    The service checks that a user has a valid license assigned.

  2. The user reaches the password reset screen and then enters the new password

  3. The password is encrypted with a public key created for the process

  4. The password is sent through HTTPS to the tenant bus relay

  5. The connector password reset endpoint looks for the user object in the AD Connector Space through...