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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

Getting the benefits and costs


In this section, we give you an idea about the different possibilities to buy the discussed licenses of the services. If you remember the tables from Chapter 1, Getting Started with a Cloud-Only Scenario , it will be clear that with a hybrid approach it makes sense to invest in Azure AD Premium, as you see in the following table:

Features

Azure AD

Premium

Self-Service Password Reset with On-Premises write-back

X

MIM server licenses

X

Advanced anomaly security reports

X

Advanced usage reporting

X

MFA (cloud users)

X

MFA (On-Premises users)

X

So, if you also use Office 365 and want to use other hybrid services, it would be great to take a look at EMS and ECS. To be up-to-date, use the following link: http://bit.ly/2atHFe1.

The following list shows you Microsoft's different sales models:

Note

Remember to use the licensing tools from Chapter 1, Getting Started with a Cloud-Only Scenario ! Azure RMS and Microsoft Intune...