Working with the several Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings such as Office 365, Dynamics CRM or Visual Studio Online requires well-managed identities and an excellent basic structure in the Azure Active Directory (AD) that builds the heart of these solutions. You, as an administrator, need to provide a stable identity and access management platform to manage these services.
This chapter explains how to configure a suitable Azure AD tenant, which we use throughout the whole book to explore, understand, and configure the different features and functions in the field of identity and access management with Microsoft Azure. We start with the cloud-only components, followed in the next chapters by the hybrid identity and access management approach.
In this chapter, we go directly to the configuration and learn how to configure and...
