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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure

By : Jochen Nickel
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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

Chapter 9. Building Cloud from Common Identities

This chapter will focus on the implementation of a basic hybrid identity and access management solution. You will learn to configure and manage the Identity Synchronization and Federation environment. Furthermore, we will enable Azure MFA to protect cloud applications. Obviously there are many configuration options. We will try to focus at a beginner and professional level at the same time. So you will find some basic step-by-step instructions, and on the other hand configuration notes for advanced options to address the reader's experience. We will extend this lab with various feature configurations and additional virtual machines in the following chapters.

The following are the topics that we are going to go through in this chapter:

  • Creating the basic lab environment

  • Installing and configuring the Synchronization and Federation environment

  • Creating dynamic groups

  • Configuring self-service group management

  • Implementing secure remote access and SSO...