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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

Getting started with user creation

To get started, you will have to access the Azure AD service in the portal. Once you're logged in, follow these steps: 

  1. Log into your subscription and search for Azure Active Directory using the search box at the top of the page:

Figure 4.1 Searching for the Azure Active Directory blade
  1. You will see an Azure AD blade, from where you have access to multiple different features of the service. As this section focuses on managing users, let's go directly to the Users blade, which can be found in the Manage section. When you access it, you will see a new screen, where you will be able to manage users inside your directory:

Figure 4.2 - Users within a directory
  1. Before we proceed, I would like you to take note of two available buttons:
    • + New user
    • + New guest user

As you can see, when creating a new user, you will have to choose whether you want to create a directory or a guest user. There...