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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 lab environment


To work through the guidance provided in this chapter, we need to arrange some preparation tasks. You need to provide an additional public DNS suffix (which in my case is azureid.ch) that represents YOURDOMAIN2.COM. We need to add this other domain as a custom domain in the first Azure AD tenant (YOURDOMAIN1.ONMICROSOFT.COM), which we used in Chapter 2Understanding Identity Synchronization:

Use the following steps to start the configuration:

  1. Open the Azure Portal: https://portal.azure.com.
  2. Navigate to the Azure AD blade. 
  3. Click Custom domains. 
  4. Click Add custom domain. 
  5. Use your additional domain name:

Adding a custom domain

  1. Configure your public DNS to represent the following verification entry:

Custom domain verification

  1. Click Verify
  2. The following result is expected:

Verified domains overview

The following diagram shows the complete lab environment we'll use in this book:

Lab environment overview

Furthermore, we need to configure a new Active Directory Forest that uses...