Chapter 9. Building Cloud from Common Identities

This chapter will focus on the implementation of a basic hybrid identity and access management solution. You will learn to configure and manage the Identity Synchronization and Federation environment. Furthermore, we will enable Azure MFA to protect cloud applications. Obviously there are many configuration options. We will try to focus at a beginner and professional level at the same time. So you will find some basic step-by-step instructions, and on the other hand configuration notes for advanced options to address the reader's experience. We will extend this lab with various feature configurations and additional virtual machines in the following chapters.

The following are the topics that we are going to go through in this chapter:

• Creating the basic lab environment

• Installing and configuring the Synchronization and Federation environment

• Creating dynamic groups

• Configuring self-service group management

• Implementing secure remote access and SSO...