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Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

By : Mustafa Toroman
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Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

By: Mustafa Toroman

Overview of this book

Azure continues to dominate the public cloud market and grow rapidly thanks to a number of recent innovations. Azure's wide range of services and support has led to a large number of customers switching to Azure cloud. Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure starts with the basics of Azure cloud fundamentals and key concepts of the cloud computing ecosystem and services. Then, you will gradually get acquainted with core services provided by Azure, including Azure VNet, types and assignments of IP addresses, and network security groups. You will also work on creating and administering Azure Virtual Machines, types of virtual machines (VMs), and design VM solutions based on computing workloads. As you make your way through the chapters, you will explore Azure App Service, discover how to host your web apps in Azure, and monitor and troubleshoot them. In the concluding chapters, you will learn more complex and abstract services, such as Azure Storage, Azure Backup, and Azure Site Recovery. You will also get to grips with Azure SQL Databases and the SQL on Azure VM concept. By the end of this book, you will have obtained practical experience of working with Azure services and Azure administration, along with maintaining, monitoring, and securing your Azure resources.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Managing AAD

After the sync is completed, all synced users will be present in AAD. In AAD, accounts can be from two different sources: AAD and Windows Service AD. Accounts with a Windows Server AD source are accounts that have been synced from the local Active Directory. AAD accounts exist only in AAD and these accounts are created in Azure. There is a third type of account, that is, a Microsoft Account. These accounts are actually Microsoft Live Accounts that can be added to your AAD.

The USER TYPE in AAD can be a Member or a Guest. Members are accounts in AAD (with your domain name) and guests are accounts that are coming from other AAD or Microsoft Live Accounts. The only exception is that a Microsoft Live Account can be a member of your AAD when that account was used to create AAD. The same thing applies to external AAD accounts (AAD accounts from outside your tenant); these...