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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure

Start empowering users and protecting corporate data, while managing Identities and Access with Microsoft Azure in different environments

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
By: Jochen Nickel  
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|Sep 2025
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Start empowering users and protecting corporate data, while managing Identities and Access with Microsoft Azure in different environments

Key Features

  • Deep dive into the Microsoft Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) solution
  • Design, implement and manage simple and complex hybrid identity and access management environments
  • Learn to apply solution architectures directly to your business needs and understand how to identify and manage business drivers during transitions

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

  • Apply technical descriptions and solution architectures directly to your business needs and deployments
  • Identify and manage business drivers and architecture changes to transition between different scenarios
  • Understand and configure all relevant Identity and Access Management key features and concepts
  • Implement simple and complex directory integration, authentication, and authorization scenarios
  • Get to know about modern identity management, authentication, and authorization protocols and standards
  • Implement and configure a modern information protection solution
  • Integrate and configure future improvements in authentication and authorization functionality of Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016

Who this book is for

This book is for business decision makers, IT consultants, and system and security engineers who wish to plan, design, and implement Identity and Access Management solutions with Microsoft Azure.

Table of Contents

  1. Getting started with a cloud only scenario
  2. Plan and Design cloud identities
  3. Plan and Design authentication and application access
  4. Build and configure a suitable Azure AD
  5. Shifting to a hybrid scenario
  6. Extending to a basic hybrid environment
  7. Designing the hybrid identity management architecture
  8. Planning the authorization and information protection options
  9. Building Cloud from Common Identities
  10. Implementing Access Control Mechanisms
  11. Managing transition scenarios
  12. Advanced considerations for complex scenarios
  13. Delivering multi forest hybrid architectures
  14. Installing and Configuring the Enhanced Identity Infrastructure
  15. Installing and Configuring Information Protection Features
  16. Choosing the Right Technology, Methods and Future Trends
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PDF ISBN: 978-1-78588-788-8
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2016 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 692
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Networking

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