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Learn Microsoft Azure

You're reading from   Learn Microsoft Azure Build, manage, and scale cloud applications using the Azure ecosystem

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789617580
Length 354 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mohamed Waly Mohamed Waly
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Microsoft Azure 101 2. Understanding Azure Storage FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting Familiar with Azure Virtual Networks 4. Understanding Azure Virtual Machines 5. Azure Web Apps Basics 6. Managing Azure Web Apps 7. Basics of Azure SQL Database 8. Managing Azure SQL Database 9. Understanding Azure Active Directory 10. Monitoring and Automating Azure Services Using OMS 11. Data Protection and Business Continuity Using OMS 12. Assessments 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting Azure Active Directory authentication

So far, we have been using SQL authentication to connect to Azure SQL Database, as we did in the previous chapter, via SQL Server Management Studio. Using Azure Active Directory (AD) will provide centralized administration for database users' identities, providing the following benefits:

  • Another method of SQL Server authentication
  • Controlling the password change for a centralized location
  • Assigning user permissions on the database level
  • Support of token-based authentication for the applications that connect to the database
  • Protection of user profiles across the database servers
  • Avoidance of the need to store passwords, as you will be able to use different methods of authentication, which we will cover shortly

In the next chapter, Azure Active Directory will be covered in more detail.

To enable Azure AD authentication for Azure...

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