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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

Preparing your lab environment


In this chapter, we will need to have an additional Azure AD, configured with Office 365, to test the different features. You already know how to create this configuration from Chapter 1Building and Managing Azure Active DirectoryBuild this additional tenant with a minimum set of configurations. Basically, you'll need to have a custom domain verified and registered, and nothing else. Furthermore, you will need to install Visual Studio 2017 Community with the ASP.NET and web development workload on your administrative workstation:

Lab environment overview

To configure the Azure AD Domain Services LDAPS use case, you need to provide a public SSL certificate. You can use the procedure from Chapter 7, Deploying Solutions on Azure AD and AD FS, to generate certificates for your needs with Let's Encrypt solution. We'll start with the Azure AD B2B functionality.