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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

Handling the guest user life cycle


In the following section, we will work through the different identity life cycle tasks for guest users. We will organize this section into specific use cases, as follows:

  • Use Case 1: Exploring the invitation process with different user types
  • Use Case 2: Using the Azure AD B2B portal
  • Use Case 3: Providing guest user access to on-premise apps

Now, we will start with the first use case.

Use Case 1 – Exploring the invitation process with different user types

In the following use case, we will explore the invitation process for different user types. We will use our global administrator to invite the following users:

  • Maria Lee
  • Jochen Nickel
  • Jenny Green
  • Susi Delgado

Note

The usernames need to be replaced with your names.

With the next steps, we will start the configuration:

  1. Open the Azure portal, https://portal.azure.com, as the global administrator, and navigate to the Azure AD blade.
  2. Navigate to Users | All users, as follows:

Guest user creation process in Azure AD portal

  1. Click...