Manage Windows Azure Active Directory by using Windows PowerShell

As an administrator, you can use the Windows Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell cmdlets to accomplish many Windows Azure AD tenant-based administrative tasks such as user management, domain management and for configuring single sign-on. This topic includes information about how to install these cmdlets for use with your tenant.

Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track guides

Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture Fabric Architecture Guide

“The scope of this document is to provide customers with the necessary guidance to develop solutions for a Microsoft private cloud infrastructure in accordance with the IaaS PLA patterns that are identified for use with the Windows Server 2012 operating system. This document provides specific guidance for developing fabric architectures (compute, network, storage, and virtualization layers) of an overall private cloud solution.”

Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture Fabric Management Architecture Guide

“The scope of this document is to provide customers with the necessary guidance to develop solutions for a Microsoft private cloud infrastructure in accordance with the IaaS PLA patterns that are identified for use with the Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1). This document provides specific guidance for developing a management architecture for an overall private cloud solution.”

Windows Server 2012: Planning for Active Directory Forest Recovery

This guide has now been updated to include using virtualized domain controller cloning in Windows Server 2012 to expedite forest recovery.

Best Practices for Securing Active Directory

A (300+ page) guide from Microsoft IT:

Contains recommendations to enhance the security of Active Directory installations, discusses common attacks against Active Directory and countermeasures to reduce the attack surface, and offers recommendations for recovery.

and a high level (6 page) overview.

 

General Availability release of Windows Azure AD

Windows Azure AD goes GA

General Availability of Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Read this post.

Watch this video at:

General Availability of Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

and the follow links on that page.

Windows Azure Active Directory Graph Team blog

The Windows Azure Active Directory Graph Team has a blog:

“Windows Azure Active Directory( AAD ) provides identity management and access control capabilities for your cloud applications. The AAD graph API will let you access the information in the directory through a very simple RESTful service.”

This post has an overview and context for AAD and you can try out the Graph API here (and click Use Demo Company).