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Product type Book

Published in Sep 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785889448

Pages 692 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Concepts

Networking

Author (1):

Jochen Nickel

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure

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Preface

1. Getting Started with a Cloud-Only Scenario

2. Planning and Designing Cloud Identities

3. Planning and Designing Authentication and Application Access

4. Building and Configuring a Suitable Azure AD

5. Shifting to a Hybrid Scenario

6. Extending to a Basic Hybrid Environment

7. Designing Hybrid Identity Management Architecture

8. Planning Authorization and Information Protection Options

9. Building Cloud from Common Identities

10. Implementing Access Control Mechanisms

11. Managing Transition Scenarios with Special 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

Using multiple identity providers and authentication scenarios

Users can log into the accounts and access applications that are integrated with Azure AD.

Using multiple identity providers

There are two options for signing users into Azure AD:

Authenticating to Azure AD.
Authenticating to an On-premises Identity Provider.

In the following figure, you can see a simple example of a combination of these two modes. If you are a user of msazure.ch, you use AAD as your identity provider and a user from idam.ch the local Active Directory with a configured ADFS infrastructure.

AD FS architecture including the Web Application proxy (AD FS proxy)

The Web Application proxy, or the AD FS proxy in older versions, is used for the following reasons:

Used to enhance the security and performance of the AD FS installation
The proxy service is exposed over HTTPS and client connections terminate at the proxy
When installing AD FS proxy, a trust is created between the proxy and the AD FS farm
It is included in the web...