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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure

By : Jochen Nickel
Book Image

Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure

By: Jochen Nickel

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure and its Identity and Access Management is at the heart of Microsoft’s Software as a Service, including Office 365, Dynamics CRM, and Enterprise Mobility Management. It is an essential tool to master in order to effectively work with the Microsoft Cloud. Through practical, project based learning this book will impart that mastery. Beginning with the basics of features and licenses, this book quickly moves on to the user and group lifecycle required to design roles and administrative units for role-based access control (RBAC). Learn to design Azure AD to be an identity provider and provide flexible and secure access to SaaS applications. Get to grips with how to configure and manage users, groups, roles, and administrative units to provide a user- and group-based application and self-service access including the audit functionality. Next find out how to take advantage of managing common identities with the Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 and build cloud identities with the Azure AD Connect utility. Construct blueprints with different authentication scenarios including multi-factor authentication. Discover how to configure and manage the identity synchronization and federation environment along with multi -factor authentication, conditional access, and information protection scenarios to apply the required security functionality. Finally, get recommendations for planning and implementing a future-oriented and sustainable identity and access management strategy.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
16
Choosing the Right Technology, Methods, and Future Trends

Creating the extended lab environment


At the beginning of the chapter, we need to extend our example lab infrastructure to follow the steps in this guidance. You can use this lab configuration or your own. If you use your own lab configuration, then it's up to you to make the necessary adjustments. For introduction purposes, we will use Azure IaaS to provide the lab environment, but you can also choose an on premise infrastructure based on your virtualization solution. In this chapter, we will use further virtual machines to demonstrate the generic installation and configuration steps.

Note

We will extend our existing lab environment with a new Active Directory forest to configure the multi-forest environment solutions. In the first part, we will use the existing cloud service, so that we can use the same subnets for the solution without any routing, to provide an easy working environment with less troubleshooting, to start the effective configurations.

The following figure shows the expected...