Azure Active Directory

Setting up Management Group for production in enterprise

June 29, 2020

org1 Once you have set up your first subscription, you can set up your Management Group.

In Azure, management groups are a way to group your subscriptions. When you apply policies and governance to your management group, all of the subscriptions within a management group automatically inherit the conditions applied. Enterprises want management groups as a way to scale your operations no matter how many subscriptions you may have.

For example, you may want to restrict the regions available for your resources to those within a particular region. A policy that reflects that can be applied to a management group and will automatically be applied to all management groups, all subscriptions, and all resources under that management group.

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Setting up Log Analytics workspace for production in enterprise

June 15, 2020

icon_1.0.1195.1535 Operations and security are central in any cloud deployment. It should be top of mind in each of your cloud deployments.

Enabling your operations team to find and fix errors, to build practices around scaling your data are essential to having a successful Azure data center.

Log Analytics provides a unified way to show what is happening across your Azure data center.

In this article learn how to set up Log Analytics to receive data from multiple Azure subscriptions, on premises virtual machines or other clouds. And learn to configure your Log Analytics workspace, set up role-based-access-control, and how to incorporate Log Analytics best practices. In addition, you will also learn how to get started with some important queries.

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Setting up your enterprise Azure subscription administrators

June 4, 2020

azureadministratorpng Microsoft makes it easy to get started using Azure — sign up for a free subscription and get started. The tutorial show you how to use the portal to create virtual machines, storage, backups. All good.

And then it comes time to take your applications into production. You may realize that you need to show auditors your security methods. And you want to be sure to protect your customer data. Or you may have cloud sprawl and want to control costs.

And you have had a good conversations about your requirements. What then?

This article shows you how to get your subscription up and running using some important best practices for your administrators. It shows how to set up Security Center and how to set up policies that can be used to help your security team validate that you are using best practices.

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Installing your line of business application into Azure Active Directory for Single Sign On

June 16, 2017

Azure Active Directory is Microsoft’s comprehensive Identity as a Service (IDaaS) solution that:

Enables Identity Access Management as a cloud service.
Provides central access management, single-sign on (SSO), and reporting.
Supports integrated access management for thousands of applications in the application gallery, including Salesforce, Google Apps, Box, Concur, and more.

To get started learning about how you can manage applications, see Managing Applications with Azure Active Directory.
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Getting started with Azure and Azure Active Directory using PowerShell

May 15, 2017

You can start working with Azure in the Azure portal. But soon, you will need PowerShell (or the Azure CLI) to explore the power of Azure. Not everything you can do shows up in the portal. In fact, the features are all exposed through the Azure scripts first.
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Getting your app started with Azure Active Directory v2 endpoint

May 12, 2017

azure-active-directory You can provide single-sign in to your application by started with a few lines of code. A new wizard in Azure Active Directory documentation makes that easier than ever. A new Azure AD v2.0 endpoint introduces you integrate to simplify your code for your users to log in. with their Microsoft account and work and school accounts.

App can now accept sign-in from both Microsoft Accounts and Azure AD accounts, using a single auth endpoint.

The new Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) v2.0 endpoint supports authentication for a variety of modern app architectures, all of them based on industry-standard protocols OAuth 2.0 or OpenID Connect.
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