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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 4. Monitoring Your Identity Bridge

Monitoring your identity synchronization processes, your Active Directory health status, and the functionality of your ADFS and Web Application Proxy authentication platform is essential for your organization. Also, gathering performance data is necessary to provide a suitable infrastructure. 

In this practical chapter, we'll explore the various monitoring capabilities for the identity bridge that's constructed by Azure AD Connect, the Active Directory itself and, if used, the ADFS and the Web Application Proxy. We'll investigate the Azure AD Monitoring and logs functionalities, the Azure AD Connect Health service, and the Azure Security Center to get a good idea of several use cases to provide an efficient and accurate monitoring to deliver a stable and suitable identity infrastructure for connecting to Azure AD.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • How Azure AD Connect Health works
  • Azure AD Monitoring and logs
  • Azure Security Center for monitoring...