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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

Chapter 11. Creating Identity Life Cycle Management in Azure

Handling the identity life cycle in cloud services is a highly requested topic; in particular, we are concerned about the handling of guest users in the Azure Active Directory, providing access to applications in the cloud and on-premise, including the sharing of information in a typical collaboration scenario. Precisely for this reason, we will discuss many use cases for handling guest users securely in your environment, and we will provide good usability for the users to access applications and data. We will also consider some helpful tools and services to automate your identity life cycle management. For sure, we can only provide a small footprint of ideas and references in this chapter, because there are many tasks and ideas to solve.

The chapter will be organized into the following sections:

  • Lab environment readiness
  • Handling the guest user life cycle
  • Azure services for automation

We will be working practically on different topics...