Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
- Azure AD is a microsoft’s cloud based identity and access maanagement service, which helps employees sign in and access resources
- Who Uses Azure AD?
- IT admins
- App Developer
- Office 365 Subscribers
- Azure AD Licenses
- Azure Active Directory Free
- Azure Active Directory Premium P1
- Azure Active Directory Premium P2
- Pay as you go license features
- Terminologies of Azure AD
- Identity: A thing that can get authenticated . Identity can be user/application
- Account: An identity that has data associated with it
- Azure AD account: Identities are created through Azure AD & stored in Azure AD. This account is also called as work or school account
- Azure tenant: A dedicated and trusted instance of Azure AD thats automatically created when you organization signs up of Microsoft cloud service subscribption (Azure, Office 365)
Creating a user in Azure
- Navigate to Azure portal refer here and Select All Services
- Now open a new incognito window and navigate to azure portal and login using user credentials
- So creating the user will enable authentication for authorization we need create roles and assign them. Lets create a new user with a different role and login
- This user is able to perform operations on Azure Active directory but unable to view resource groups or resources
- Assigning Access on Subscriptions to the users will help in viewing resources
- To manage users we need to create users and play with roles at different levels
- After creating the user to set the right permissions we need to understand roles and levels at which roles can be applied
Exercise and Lab Setups
- Ensure Azure account is created
- Install necessary softwares Refer Here
- Install Windows Terminal Refer Here
- Cloud Essentials Refer Here
