{"id":4381,"date":"2016-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/see-how-the-contoso-corporation-is-implementing-azure-services"},"modified":"2025-06-23T06:40:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T13:40:02","slug":"see-how-the-contoso-corporation-is-implementing-azure-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/see-how-the-contoso-corporation-is-implementing-azure-services\/","title":{"rendered":"See how the Contoso Corporation is implementing Azure services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/cloudarchcontoso\">Contoso in the Microsoft Cloud poster<\/a> shows how t he Contoso Corporation, a fictional but representative global organization, is embracing a cloud-inclusive IT infrastructure that includes all of Microsoft\u2019s cloud offerings (Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft Intune).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/409ac67f-785d-44fe-b870-e1f1021c2fed.webp\" alt=\"\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This new poster contains the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">An overview of the fictional Contoso Corporation, its three-tier design for its offices, and key elements of Contoso\u2019s implementation of the Microsoft cloud.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">A review of Contoso\u2019s on-premises IT infrastructure and how its business needs map to Microsoft\u2019s cloud offerings, including opportunities for Azure PaaS and IaaS.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Contoso\u2019s private WAN infrastructure, its app design for its offices, its use of Azure ExpressRoute Premium, and its step-by-step path to cloud networking readiness.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Contoso\u2019s on-premises Windows Server Active Directory (AD) forest, how it geographically distributes authentication traffic, and how it uses Azure IaaS to provide authentication infrastructure redundancy for the 15,000 workers in its Paris headquarters.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Contoso\u2019s structure for Microsoft cloud offering subscriptions, licenses, its common Azure AD tenant, and user accounts synched with Azure AD from its on-premises Windows Server AD forest.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Contoso\u2019s security requirements in the cloud, its data sensitivity classification and mapping of cloud features to each level, and its step-by-step path to cloud security readiness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/89feb10d-0fd8-4b2b-881e-b728c8ea63bd.webp\" alt=\"\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Download thiy7s multi-page poster <a href=\"https:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/D\/9\/7\/D9742FC5-6CD2-4F99-AF49-A096648EAF58\/MSFT_cloud_architecture_contoso.vsd\">Visio<\/a> format, or see it online on <a href=\"https:\/\/doc.co\/iiCaim\">Docs.com<\/a>. 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