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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

Managing directory roles

There are two different sets of roles in Azure – one reflects permissions defined by different services, while the other is designed to operate on Azure AD directory and give you the possibility to decide who can perform a specific management task (such as access audit logs or register an application).

In this section, you will learn how to use that functionality and assign different users to different directory roles.

To get started, you will have to access your Azure AD tenant in the Azure portal. To do so, search for Azure Active Directory in the search box located at the top of the portal:

Figure 4.28 - Searching for the Azure Active Directory blade

Now, you will have to find the Roles and administrators blade:

Figure 4.29 - Roles and administrators blade

On the next screen, you should be able to see all the available roles and your current role. From here, you will be able to check who has a particular role assigned...