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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure - Second Edition

By : Jochen Nickel
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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


In this chapter, you can use any machine that has Visual Studio installed. In our case, we installed it on the YD1APP01 server. This should be your perfect development environment. You will use Azure AD1: yourdomain1.onmicrosoft.com during this lab, and one test guest user from another tenant and a test user from any other Azure AD to test multi-tenant applications. Furthermore, you will need to use the code examples from the code package to use it in your Visual Studio to configure and run the applications:

Lab environment overview

After preparing our lab environment, we can directly jump into the first section of the chapter, which describes single- and multi-tenant applications.