[Windows Azure AD] WAAD whitepapers updated

Microsoft has updated its series of whitepapers on Windows Azure AD.

This series of whitepapers on Windows Azure AD offerings comprises:

• Active Directory from the on-premises to the cloud whitepaper.
• An overview of Windows Azure AD
• Leverage Multi-Factor Authentication with Windows Azure AD whitepaper.
• Leverage Multi-Factor Authentication Server on your premises whitepaper
• Leverage Windows Azure AD for modern Business Applications whitepaper.

An overview of Windows Azure AD whitepaper introduces the trends that sustains a new identity model, the role of Identity Management as a Service (IdMaaS) and presents in this context the Microsoft’s identity offerings in the hybrid era.
An introduction on Windows Azure AD whitepaper further presents the capabilities that can be leveraged to centralize the identity management needs of your modern business applications, and your SaaS subscriptions, whether they are cloud-based, hybrid, or even on-premises. Windows Azure AD is a complete offering that can help you take advantage of your on-premises existing investment, fully outsource to the cloud your users (and devices) management and anything in between.

For enterprises with more demanding needs an advanced offering, Windows Azure Active Directory Premium, currently in preview, helps complete the set of capabilities that this identity and access management solution delivers.

Leverage Multi-Factor Authentication with Windows Azure AD whitepaper covers the Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication paid offering and how to leverage it with Windows Azure AD (Premium).

As an addition, Leverage Multi-Factor Authentication Server on your premises whitepaper describes how to use Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Server and to configure it to secure cloud resources such as Office 365 so that so that federated users will be prompted to set up additional verification the next time they sign in on-premises.
In order to streamline and to ease as much as possible the way to build a suitable test lab environment for such a multi-products and services solution, this whitepaper leverages the Windows Azure environment along with the Windows Azure PowerShell cmdlets to build the on-premises test lab environment to test and evaluate the Multi-Factor Authentication Server.
The eponym archive file contains the script New-TestLabEnvironment.ps1 referred in the whitepaper for building the "on-premises" test lab environment. This script illustrates how to leverage the remote Windows PowerShell capabilities along with the Windows Server automation with Windows PowerShell to setup the required virtual machines.

Leverage Windows Azure AD for modern Business Applications whitepaper further presents the aspects that relates to the development of solutions. Windows Azure AD offers to developers and cloud ISVs an identity management platform to deliver access control to their modern business applications, based on centralized policy and rules. 

Whitepapers are available here : Active Directory from on-premises to the cloud – Windows Azure AD whitepapers