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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

Preparing your Azure AD environment for tests


In this section, we'll adjust our Azure AD environment to run code from the Microsoft Information Protection SDK against our Azure Information Protection infrastructure. As usual, it starts with the creation of an Azure AD app:

  1. Log in with global administrator credentials to the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com.
  2. Navigate to the Azure AD blade.
  3. Click App registrations to create a new application.
  4. Click New Applications registration.
  1. Use the following settings:

Example app properties

  1. Click the Settings button on the registered application:

App Settings option

  1. Click the Required permissions section for API access.
  1. Click Add:

Required permissions configuration

  1. Click Select an API. If needed, use the search field to find Microsoft Rights Management Services.
  2. Select the Microsoft Rights Management Services API:

Choosing the Microsoft RMS API

  1. Under the Select permissions section, use the Create and access protected content for users permission under the DELEGATED...