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Implementing Azure Solutions

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke
Book Image

Implementing Azure Solutions

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure has numerous effective solutions that shape the future of any business. However, the major challenge that architects and administrators face are implementing these solutions appropriately. Our book focuses on various implementation scenarios that will help overcome the challenge of implementing Azure’s solutions in a very efficient manner and will also help you to prepare for Microsoft Architect exam. You will not only learn how to secure a newly deployed Azure Active Directory but also get to know how Azure Active Directory Synchronization could be implemented. To maintain an isolated and secure environment so that you can run your virtual machines and applications, you will implement Azure networking services. Also to manage, access, and secure your confidential data, you will implement storage solutions. Toward the end, you will explore tips and tricks to secure your environment. By the end, you will be able to implement Azure solutions such as networking, storage, and cloud effectively.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 3. Deploying and Synchronizing Azure Active Directory

As the quantity of cloud services increase, identity management and security as well as access policies within cloud environments and cloud services is becoming even more essential and important.

The Microsoft central instance for this is Azure Active Directory. Every security policy or identity Microsoft provides for their cloud services is based on Azure Active Directory.

Within this chapter, you will learn the basics about Azure Active Directory, how you implement Azure AD and hybrid Azure Active Directory with connection to Active Directory Domain Services.

We are going to explore the following topics:

  • Azure Active Directory overview
  • Azure Active Directory subscription options
  • Azure Active Directory deployment
  • Azure Active Directory user and subscription management
  • How to deploy Azure Active Directory hybrid identities with Active Directory Domain Services
  • Azure Active Directory hybrid high availability and non-high availability deployments...