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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure - Second Edition

By : Jochen Nickel
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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

Using PowerShell with Azure Information Protection


PowerShell provides you managing capabilities for Azure Information Protection. In special, to handle custom classification and protection solutions you need to be able to use PowerShell to solve your challenges like, labeling and protecting files on a file share or single computer. With the following cmdlets you have the basic toolset to do the most administrative tasks with PowerShell. We used the cmdlets for example for providing a monitoring solution of a single folder and labeling and encrypting the files in the folder based on keywords. With the following commands, you can start to explore more about Azure Information Protection's capabilities and technology:

  • Import-Module AzureInformationProtection
  • Get-AIPFileStatus: Used to identify all files with a specific label
  • Set-AIPFileClassification: Used to inspect file contents and automatically label unlabeled files
  • Set-AIPFileLabel: Used to apply a specified label
  • Set-AIPAuthentication: Used...