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Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By : Aaditya Pokkunuri, Jack Lee, Greg Leonardo, Jason Milgram, David Rendón
Book Image

Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By: Aaditya Pokkunuri, Jack Lee, Greg Leonardo, Jason Milgram, David Rendón

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is a powerful cloud computing platform that offers a multitude of services and capabilities for organizations of any size moving to a cloud strategy. This fourth edition comes with the latest updates on cloud security fundamentals, hybrid cloud, cloud migration, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, and Windows Virtual Desktop. It encapsulates the entire spectrum of measures involved in Azure deployment that includes understanding Azure fundamentals, choosing a suitable cloud architecture, building on design principles, becoming familiar with Azure DevOps, and learning best practices for optimization and management. The book begins by introducing you to the Azure cloud platform and demonstrating the substantial scope of digital transformation and innovation that can be achieved with Azure's capabilities. The guide also acquaints you with practical insights into application modernization, Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployment, infrastructure management, key application architectures, best practices of Azure DevOps, and Azure automation. By the end of this book, you will have acquired the skills required to drive Azure operations from the planning and cloud migration stage to cost management and troubleshooting.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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8. Conclusion
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Index

The fundamentals of deploying remote work infrastructure

Remote working has been an imperative transition for most organizations in the past year and has brought multiple challenges for people who used to work from corporate offices full-time.

Enabling working from home is the key to helping people stay connected across an organization and with partners and customers. By leveraging Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), not only will you be able to enable remote working but you will also be able to allow users to securely access the applications they need from outside the corporate network.

It is important to have a strong identity foundation in the cloud, and Azure AD is the key component to empower users working remotely. Azure AD is a cloud-based offering from Microsoft that provides identity and access management capabilities. This means that Azure AD can span across different environments, allowing employees access to resources that can be located in their actual on-premises...