The Company Branding section allows you to set up custom text and graphics that your users will see when they sign into Azure AD. This allows your organization to set up their logo and custom color schemes. Organizations can provide a consistent look and feel for their users when they sign into their Azure AD …
Appearance + Startup Views- Introduction to Microsoft Azure
The Appearance + Startup Views pane has two sections: the Appearance section and the Startup Views section (shown in Figure 9.26). The Appearance section allows you to change menu behavior and the color theme, and specify whether you’d like to use a high- contrast theme. The Startup Views section allows you to set up the …
Microsoft Azure, Migration Tables, Pin Content from a Resource Group Page, Understanding Different Cloud Concepts
Configuring the Azure Portal Settings- Introduction to Microsoft Azure
As an Azure administrator, you also have the ability to modify the default settings of the Azure portal. Most of the settings that you can change can be found in the Settings menu (shown as a spoke), which is at the top- right of the global pane header, as shown in Figure 9.20. FIGURE 9.20 …
Change the Title and Subtitle of a Tile- Introduction to Microsoft Azure
You may decide that you want to change the name of a tile; some tiles give you that ability. From the menu, select Configure Tile Settings (as shown in Figure 9.15). FIGURE 9.15 Configure Tile Settings After you choose Configure Tile Settings, you can then make any changes that you want to make and click …
Azure AD Connect Sync: Understand and Customize Synchronization- Understanding Azure Active Directory
Objects and credentials, from an on- premises AD DS domain, can be synchronized to Azure AD using Azure AD Connect in a hybrid environment. Once those objects are synchronized to Azure AD, the automatic background sync then makes those objects and credentials available to applications using the managed domain. A main component of Azure AD …
Pin Content from a Resource Group Page- Introduction to Microsoft Azure
Another way that you can add tiles to your dashboard is by adding them directly from a Resource Group page (see Figure 9.7). Many resource pages have a pin icon on the page header. This means that you can pin the tile to the source page. Figure 9.7 shows what the pin looks like. FIGURE …
Planning Azure AD Authentication Options- Understanding Azure Active Directory
Azure AD is a centralized identity provider in the cloud, and authentication is the process of verifying that you are who you say you are. It helps protect a user’s identity and also simplifies the login experience. The Microsoft identity platform makes it easy to authorize and authenticate by providing identity as a service. In …
Understanding the Azure Dashboards- Introduction to Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure can support a number of dashboards in the Azure portal. Each dashboard will include tiles showing data from different Azure resources across different resource groups and subscriptions. You can also create different dashboards for different teams or clone an existing one. In the Azure portal, dashboards are a focused and organized view of …
Azure VPN Gateway- Understanding Azure Active Directory
As I have stated throughout this book, most (if not all) companies will have both an onsite network and an Azure network. Because of this, you will need to know how to connect both networks. This is where you would use a site- to- site VPN gateway connection. Site- to- site VPN gateway connections allow …
Compare and Contrast the Service Types- Introduction to Microsoft Azure
Table 9.1 shows you all of the different components and how IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS can be used in the cloud. Table 9.1 also shows the benefits of each of these components when deciding to use the cloud. TABLE 9.1 IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS benefits and features Feature IaaS PaaS SaaS Up- front Costs No …