IAM in the Preview portal

The Preview portal, which you can refer to at https://portal.azure.com, is accessible with a valid credential, such as a Microsoft account or a company account (hosted on Azure AD). Discussing the new features of this portal is out of the scope of this book but, from an IT and security perspective, great features have been added to it.

A completely renewed role-based authorization engine is implemented to set up fine grained security for each component of the platform, as we can see in the next section.

Note

At the time of writing this book, there are some limitations in the Preview portal; not every Azure service is available to be managed and not all the features of available services are aligned with the current portal.

Role-Based Access Control

Users have been demanding this feature for a long time and, finally, it has arrived. In the Preview portal, the old users (such as the service administrator and the co-administrators) are grouped in the cumulative user, Subscription...