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Learn Azure Administration

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
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Learn Azure Administration

By: Kamil Mrzygłód

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is one of the upcoming cloud platforms that provide cost-effective solutions and services to help businesses overcome complex infrastructure-related challenges. This book will help you scale your cloud administration skills with Microsoft Azure. Learn Azure Administration starts with an introduction to the management of Azure subscriptions, and then takes you through Azure resource management. Next, you'll configure and manage virtual networks and find out how to integrate them with a set of Azure services. You'll then handle the identity and security for users with the help of Azure Active Directory, and manage access from a single place using policies and defined roles. As you advance, you'll get to grips with receipts to manage a virtual machine. The next set of chapters will teach you how to solve advanced problems such as DDoS protection, load balancing, and networking for containers. You'll also learn how to set up file servers, along with managing and storing backups. Later, you'll review monitoring solutions and backup plans for a host of services. The last set of chapters will help you to integrate different services with Azure Event Grid, Azure Automation, and Azure Logic Apps, and teach you how to manage Azure DevOps. By the end of this Azure book, you'll be proficient enough to easily administer your Azure-based cloud environment.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Understanding the Basics
5
Section 2: Identity and Access Management
9
Section 3: Advanced Topics

Monitoring and auditing users

Being an administrator means that you often need to check some data related to a user. This can be for different things – their saved information, assigned permissions, or access to Azure resources. Another important thing will be also auditing them and checking what was changed. In Azure AD, there are a few different methods for monitoring your users such as sign-ins logs and activity logs. We will cover these in this section so that you are familiar with how to audit people accessing your tenant.

To get started, you will need to go to your Azure AD tenant in the Azure portal and access the Users blade. To do so, search for Azure Active Directory using the search box at the top of the portal:

Figure 4.34 - Searching for the Azure Active Directory blade

Then, find the mentioned blade and click on it:

Figure 4.35 - Users blade
If you have followed the previous sections, you should be familiar with the displayed view...