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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure

By : Jochen Nickel
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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

How does authorization and information protection reporting work?


For authorization, and especially for Azure RMS, there is a rich set of reporting capabilities. The full set of reports requires an Azure AD Premium license. The reports are shown in the following manner:

With the installed hybrid reporting agent on your MIM infrastructure, you can view all the details from your Azure AD and your local identity management infrastructure.

Another important feature in the usage of Azure RMS is the Azure RMS tracking website. On this website you can track the usage of your RMS-protected and shared information around the globe. You get also the capability to revoke permissions to a specific document. The Azure RMS tracking feature looks like the following figure:

Note

Practical note

For privacy considerations, organizations are able to disable the track feature if desired.

If you need to revoke permissions on a specific file, you can just select the option to revoke the permissions. You provide...