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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure - Second Edition

By : Jochen Nickel
Book Image

Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure - Second Edition

By: Jochen Nickel

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure and its Identity and access management are at the heart of Microsoft's software as service products, including Office 365, Dynamics CRM, and Enterprise Mobility Management. It is crucial to master Microsoft Azure in order to be able to work with the Microsoft Cloud effectively. You’ll begin by identifying the benefits of Microsoft Azure in the field of identity and access management. Working through the functionality of identity and access management as a service, you will get a full overview of the Microsoft strategy. Understanding identity synchronization will help you to provide a well-managed identity. Project scenarios and examples will enable you to understand, troubleshoot, and develop on essential authentication protocols and publishing scenarios. Finally, you will acquire a thorough understanding of Microsoft Information protection technologies.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Implementation scenario overview


After completing the next configuration tasks, you will see the rich functionality of Microsoft Azure in the field of identity and access management, starting with cloud identities. You can demonstrate the different capabilities in your own Microsoft Azure environment. The guidance will focus on the most essential feature sets to give you an idea about their capabilities. We will start to use the default directory, which we call domain.onmicrosoft.com for now, and will change it later to a custom domain name. Domain stands for your desired name like example.com , this is also used for the userPrincipalName of the users in this chapter, e.g. [email protected] is represented in the chapter by my example domain called inovitcloudlabs. Be aware that this name will be visible in different applications, such as SharePoint Online and Skype for Business, to the end user. We recommend the company name without the company form, for instance, inovit GmbH would be inovit.onmicrosoft.com. Use a different name for your tests, so that the domain for a productive environment stays free. This configuration will be the base for all further scenarios in the book. For this reason, we use an Azure, Enterprise Mobility Suite, and Office 365 subscription to use all the available features.

The following figure shows the different main areas we will focus on in this chapter:

Chapter scenario overview

In the next section, we will start the configuration of the scenarios.