Azure Active Directory Resources

One of the new trends in modern IT is consolidating your footprint of on-premises services you provide to the organization. For many organizations, moving those workloads to the cloud or leveraging existing cloud based services for a workload you used to do on-premises can save costs, and cut complexity out of your IT operational portfolio. The primary workload for many that is identity services such as Active Directory and to extend (or migrate) to either Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, or simply migrate your Active Directory Domain Controllers to Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).

This blog will provide you a list of Microsoft resources that you may find useful in your journey of extending or moving Active Directory to the cloud. If you have comments/feedback or come across a resource that I don't have listed below – please let me know in the comments section. Enjoy!

Starting out with Azure Active Directory:

• Understanding Office 365 identity and Azure Active Directory

• What is Azure Active Directory?

• Fundamentals of Azure identity management

• Microsoft hybrid identity solutions

• What's the difference with Azure Active Directory free,basic,premium,P1,P2?

• Active Directory Federation Services in Azure

• Azure AD Connect: Design concepts

• Azure Active Directory Seamless Single Sign-On

• Azure AD Seamless Single Sign-On: GDPR compliance

• User sign-in with Azure Active Directory Pass-through Authentication

• Prerequisites for Azure AD Connect

• Azure Roadmap

Deploy a Azure Active Directory Proof of Concept:

• Azure Active Directory Proof of Concept Playbook: Introduction

• Azure Active Directory Proof of Concept Playbook Ingredients

• Azure Active Directory Proof of Concept Playbook: Implementation

• Azure Active Directory proof of concept playbook: Building blocks

Azure AD Connect (tool) and Hybrid:

• Integrate your on-premises directories with Azure Active Directory

• What is Azure AD Connect and federation

• Architecture Topologies for Azure AD Connect

• How to manage Azure AD Connect

• GDPR compliance and Azure AD Connect

• Implement password synchronization with Azure AD Connect sync

• Azure AD Connect sync: How to manage the Azure AD service account

• Hybrid Identity Required Ports and Protocols

• Azure Active Directory Hybrid Identity Design Considerations

• Define data protection strategy for your hybrid identity solution

• Manage access to resources with Azure Active Directory groups

• User Management

Azure AD Self Service Password Reset:

• Azure AD self-service password reset for the IT professional

• Self-service password reset in Azure AD deep dive

• How to successfully roll out self-service password reset

What about Azure Active Directory Domain Services? (ADDS running in Azure as a service):

• What is Azure Active Directory (AD) Domain Services?

• How to decide if Azure AD Domain Services is right for your use-case

• Deployment scenarios and use-cases

Deployment of Active Directory Domain Services (on-premises) in Azure IaaS (on virtual machines):

• Guidelines for Deploying Windows Server Active Directory on Azure Virtual Machines

• How to install a new Active Directory forest on an Azure virtual network

• Install a new Active Directory forest on an Azure virtual network

• Install a Replica Active Directory Domain Controller in Azure Virtual Networks

 
 

Azure Active Directory Join (instead of domain joined device):

• Introduction to device management in Azure Active Directory

• Usage scenarios and deployment considerations for Azure AD Join

• Set up Azure Active Directory registered Windows 10 devices

• How to configure hybrid Azure Active Directory joined devices

• Setting up on-premises conditional access by using Azure Active Directory device registration

• Join a new Windows 10 device with Azure AD during a first run

• Troubleshooting hybrid Azure Active Directory joined down-level devices

• Afraid of Windows 10 with Azure AD join? Try it out (part 1)

• Enterprise State Roaming overview (sync your device settings to the cloud!)

Useful Videos:

• Azure Active Directory best practices from around the world

• What's new in Azure Active Directory Domain Services

• Windows devices in Azure Active Directory: Why should I care?

Azure Active Directory B2B:

• What is Azure AD B2B collaboration?

• How do Azure Active Directory admins add B2B collaboration users?

• How do information workers add B2B collaboration users?

• Multi-factor authentication for B2B collaboration users

Azure Active Directory Application Management:

• Managing Applications with Azure Active Directory

• Integrating Azure Active Directory with applications getting started guide

• Managing access to apps

• Develop line-of-business apps for Azure Active Directory

Manage Access to Azure:

• Manage access to Azure resources with Azure Active Directory

• Get started with Role-Based Access Control in the Azure portal

• Manage access to Azure management with conditional access

• Securing privileged access for hybrid and cloud deployments in Azure AD

• Manage emergency-access administrative accounts in Azure AD

• Azure AD access reviews

Securing your identities:

• Conditional access in Azure Active Directory
• Authenticating identities without passwords through Windows Hello for Business
• Get started with certificate-based authentication in Azure Active Directory
• Azure Active Directory Identity Protection
• Securing privileged access in Azure AD

And my favorite…

Azure Active Directory Terms of Use feature (Preview)

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 05, 2018
  very useful, thanks for sharing!
• Anonymous
  June 11, 2018
  So many thanks to Matt! Hope this list will be updated constantly.