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Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack

By : Amit Malik
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Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack

By: Amit Malik

Overview of this book

Windows Azure Pack is an on-premises cloud solution by Microsoft, which can be leveraged by Organizations and Services providers for building an enterprise class cloud solution. WAP provides consistent experience to Microsoft Azure, along with capabilities such as multi-tenancy, high density, self-service, automated. WAP can be leveraged to provide both IaaS & PaaS Offerings to internal and external customers. In this book, we will learn about planning and deployment of Cloud Fabric for Windows Azure Pack, Azure Pack components, VM Clouds and IaaS offerings, PaaS Offering including WebSites & Service Bus, DBaaS offerings, Automation with SMA, and extending capabilities with third party products integration and tenant experience for all services.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Enabling ADFS authentication for WAP portals


Windows Azure Pack standard installation includes authentication sites for both admin and tenant portals to leverage their default authentication mechanisms. Active directory provides authentication services worldwide. We can leverage AD features and capabilities by enabling our WAP portals to use ADFS for authentication.

This can enable service providers to authenticate tenant users against the tenant's own active directory hosted inside their on-premises infrastructure.

ADFS authentication architecture and overview – admin and tenant portals

By default, Windows Azure Pack portals are configured to use the following authentication mechanisms.

  • The WAP management portal for administrators: Windows authentication

  • The WAP management portal for tenants—ASP.NET provider

Active Directory Federations Services are used to simplify login and enable true SSO (single sign on) capabilities across the applications and services hosted anywhere (on-premises/public...