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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 authentication and authorization improvements with Windows Server 2016


For Microsoft, and the hybrid vision AD FS, Windows Server 2016 plays a key role in the whole IAM strategy. It's critical to the overall success of Azure Stack and the hybrid identity. This takes us to the point of the new feature sets of AD FS 4.0, which you can include in your design considerations. Additionally, we will provide more in-depth insights in a later, special chapter dedicated to the new features of Windows Server 2016.

Features overview

The AF FS provides the following extensions to the identity and access management framework:

  • Comprehensive Authentication, supporting multiple stores with additional security controls for MFA

  • Enhanced Conditional Access, supporting MDM capabilities for conditional Access Control

  • Modern applications - REST based services support with OAuth

  • Enhanced Sign-In experience - a rich and flexible set of customization options in special per relying party

  • Simplified deployment...