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Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785889448

Length 692 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Networking

Authors (2):

Jochen Nickel

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with a Cloud-Only Scenario

2. Planning and Designing Cloud Identities FREE CHAPTER

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

Designing roles and administrative units

In this section, we will discuss the designing of roles and administrative units that we can use to provide Role-based Access Control and the delegation of rights to several types of administrative persons.

Roles and RBAC

RBAC is well implemented in the Microsoft Azure platform and has a security model to perform access control of resources by users on a more granular level. Users can access and execute actions on the resources within their scope of work.

Note

There is an actual limit of 200 co-administrators per subscription. RBAC is only available in the new Azure Portal https://portal.azure.com, in addition to the usage of the Azure Resource Manager APIs.

RBAC allows more users to manage their Azure services, and at the same time limits access to only specific resources, rather than the entire subscription.

Practical Notes:

Administrators and co-administrators: They will see all resources in all portals and through APIs
Users defined in RBAC: They will...

You're reading from 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

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Designing roles and administrative units

Roles and RBAC

Note

Authors (1)

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