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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 (22 chapters)
Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
16
Choosing the Right Technology, Methods, and Future Trends

About the Reviewer

As senior consultant and Microsoft MVP Ronny is working for inovativ, a Dutch Microsoft gold partner specialized in Microsoft datacenter, workplace, productivity and security solutions.

Ronny’s primary focus is on Enterprise Mobility + Security, Identity and Access management and Data- and Threat protection. As proud community domain lead he is responsible for a great team of highly skilled consultant’s caring for product innovation and adoption.

In his role as Microsoft Valuable Professional (MVP) for Enterprise Mobility he’s working closely with various Microsoft product groups to provide customer feedback, product improvements and most important his contributions to the community by sharing knowledge and experience. As Microsoft Partner Technical Solution Professional (P-TSP) for Enterprise Mobility + Security and Windows 10 he is working closely with Microsoft SSP/TSP counterparts on customer engagements for corporate accounts and enterprise segments. 

His presence at various community events as well as international conferences like Experts live Europe, TechDays and various user group meetings are dedicated by meeting people and again sharing knowledge. Furthermore, Ronny is active via various social media channels, his blogs and is member of the System Center User Group NL.