AZURE HIERARCHY & MICROSOFT EXTRA ID

Oladipo Ogunleye — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:45:12 +0000

Task to work with as a beginner in Microsoft azure.

AZURE HIERARCHY:This is how Microsoft organizes and manages resources and policies in azure.

Four (4) Levels of Azure hierarchy
1.Management resources
2.Subscription
3.Resouces group
4.Resource

1.Management Resources: Top-level containers that help organize multiple subscriptions and apply governance policies centrally.

2.Subscription: Billing boundary use for quota limits and logical separation of environments. Each subscription is tied to one Azure AD tenant.

3.Resource Groups: It's a container that holds related resources which is use for lifecycle management. Examples are, Storage for one app,SQL SERVER.

4.RESOURCES: Its the actual azure services use for storage account, virtual machines services, and etc.

MICROSOFT ENTRA ID:Its microsoft cloud identity and access management service.Its stand in position of security guard at any level.

COMPONENTOF MICROSOFT ENTRA ID
1.Users and Group
Users:richygreat@gamil.com,service-principal app.
Groups:Sales Team,Finance-Audut.

2.Conditional Access:This is by engaging MfA(Muiti-Factor Authentication) which is an extrasecurity for a login protection.

3.App Registrations:Every app that logs in with microsoft gets registered.

FUNCTIONS OF MICROSOFT ENTRA ID

Identity 2.Authentication 3.Authorization.

HOW TO CREATE AZURE SUBSCRIPTION.
Here's is how to create azure subscription
1.Go to azure.microsoft.com
2.Click start free
3.Sign in with your microsoft account
4.Verify identity
5.Agree to terms

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AZURE HIERARCHY & MICROSOFT EXTRA ID