{"id":1532,"date":"2013-03-04T08:10:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T17:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2013-03-04T22:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T07:27:00","slug":"new-active-directory-features-in-the-windows-azure-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/04\/new-active-directory-features-in-the-windows-azure-portal\/","title":{"rendered":"New Active Directory Features in the Windows Azure Portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/windowsazure\/archive\/2013\/03\/04\/more-identity-and-access-management-improvements-in-windows-azure.aspx\">Important news this morning<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>If you took advantage of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/windowsazure\/archive\/2012\/11\/28\/windows-azure-now-supports-federation-with-windows-server-active-directory.aspx\">organizational sign-up for Windows Azure<\/a>, where you can access your Windows Azure subscription using your directory accounts, this morning you are in for a fantastic treat. In a nutshell, from now on you can use the active directory area of the Windows Azure portal for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Managing users<\/strong>. You can now create, delete and update users; and of course, you can assign roles that will determine what the user can do with the directory in the portal itself.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Registering domains<\/strong>. You are now able to register the domains owned by your organization directly from the Windows Azure portal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Setting up dirsync<\/strong>. If you want to connect your Windows Azure Active Directory to your Windows Server AD, as discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Events\/Patterns-Practices-Symposium-Online\/pattern-practices-symposium-2013\/Windows-Azure-Active-Directory\">here<\/a>, there\u2019s some setup to be made; now you can control the whole process directly from the Windows Azure portal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Preview: phone-based multifactor auth for administrators<\/strong>. Tell me the truth, how many times have you wished for a higher level of authentication assurance but gave up because you didn\u2019t want\/could not invest in PKI and smartcards? Well, guess what: we are previewing a multifactor authentication mechanism for which your admins are just required to\u2026 have their phone with them!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alex is sharing all the details in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/windowsazure\/archive\/2013\/03\/04\/more-identity-and-access-management-improvements-in-windows-azure.aspx\">a post on the Windows Azure blog<\/a>: do check it out!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the occasion I wrote a short visual guide to help you to experience the new features: I broke that down in<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/04\/managing-windows-azure-ad-from-the-windows-azure-portal-1-sign-up-with-an-organizational-account\/\">Signing up for a Windows Azure subscription backed by an organizational account<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/04\/managing-windows-azure-ad-from-the-windows-azure-portal-2-explore-the-directory-features\/\">Exploring the new directory features in the portal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/04\/managing-windows-azure-ad-from-the-windows-azure-portal-3-add-a-co-admin-use-2fa\/\">Adding a co-admin from the directory and use phone-based multi-factor authentication<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Lots of screenshots, please be patient while the posts load <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile\" alt=\"Smile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/wlEmoticon-smile1.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Important news this morning! If you took advantage of the organizational sign-up for Windows Azure, where you can access your Windows Azure subscription using your directory accounts, this morning you are in for a fantastic treat. 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