Cloud Computing With Microsoft Azure

  Azure AD is a service that provides identity and access management capabilities in the cloud. Azure AD can be integrated with existing on-premise AD for providing single sign-on functionality for their users to access the cloud applications. So it is essential for organizations to keep the credentials in both on-premise AD and Azure AD to be in sync. To solve the sync issues, we have Azure Active Directory connect tool, which provides one-way synchronization from on-premise AD to Azure AD.   Prerequisites Windows Server 2008R2 SP1 or Higher Only 64 bit version supported .Net framework 3.5 SP1 and .net framework 4.0 Install Active Directory Domain Services role on your local machine and promote it to a Domain Controller   Test Lab Environment: Active subscription for Azure Active Directory On-premise AD server (Windows Server 2012) Azure AD connect tool Synchronizing on-premise AD to Azure AD involves the following steps Create Azure AD and Activate Azure AD Connect...

Every user who needs access to Azure resources needs an Azure user account. A user account contains all the information needed to authenticate the user during the sign-on process. Once authenticated, Azure AD builds an access token to authorize the user and determine what resources they can access and what they can do with those resources. You use the  Azure Active Directory  dashboard in the Azure portal to work with user objects. Keep in mind that you can only work with a single directory at a time - but you can use the  Directory + Subscription  panel to switch directories. The dashboard also has a  Switch directory  button in the toolbar which makes it easy to switch to another available directory. Viewing users To view the Azure AD users, select the  Users  entry under the  Manage  section. The  All Users  view appears. Take a minute to access the portal and view your users. Notice the  User type  and  Ident...