Identity Management

To easily and correctly manage resources in Azure, you have to find a way to provide proper identity management in the cloud. By using Azure Active Directory, you can handle the identity and security for your users with ease. This chapter is designed to allow you to find solutions to many common problems, such as managing groups and registering service principals for applications. In this chapter, we will begin by creating users in Azure AD. We will also learn how to assign a user to a role and register an application in Azure AD. Then, we will learn how to create and manage groups, followed by managing directory roles, along with monitoring and auditing users. Finally, we will learn how to enable MFA authentication.

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