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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 (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

Using multiple identity providers and authentication scenarios


Users can log into the accounts and access applications that are integrated with Azure AD.

Using multiple identity providers

There are two options for signing users into Azure AD:

  • Authenticating to Azure AD.

  • Authenticating to an On-premises Identity Provider.

In the following figure, you can see a simple example of a combination of these two modes. If you are a user of msazure.ch, you use AAD as your identity provider and a user from idam.ch the local Active Directory with a configured ADFS infrastructure.

AD FS architecture including the Web Application proxy (AD FS proxy)

The Web Application proxy, or the AD FS proxy in older versions, is used for the following reasons:

  • Used to enhance the security and performance of the AD FS installation

  • The proxy service is exposed over HTTPS and client connections terminate at the proxy

  • When installing AD FS proxy, a trust is created between the proxy and the AD FS farm

  • It is included in the web...