Chapter 11
Managing Identity and Access with Azure Active Directory
IN THIS CHAPTER
Differentiating AD products
Describing the relationship between subscriptions and AD
Creating and managing AD users and groups
Implementing role-based access control
Accepting Azure Advisor recommendations
Every time you do work in Azure, you’re interacting with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), which is a hosted identity service that is relevant to Azure architects, administrators, developers, business analysts, information workers, and even your customers.
The reason why Azure AD is central in Azure is that it forms the identity base for your subscriptions. Any person or process who needs to access your Azure subscription must be defined in Azure AD.
By the end of this chapter, you’ll have a strong grasp of the relationship between Azure AD and Azure subscriptions. You’ll also have the skills necessary to protect resources with least-privilege security. The IT security principle of least privilege ...
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