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Follow below mentioned 10 steps to Understand Azure Active Directory and user management
After completing this blog, you will be able to do
- Set up Azure Active Directory
- Create and manage users and roles
Sample Description: We are going to discuss different aspects of Azure AD , Users, Roles and its management
Step 1: Open Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com)
Step 2: Every azure account will have a default AD. Click on your profile at right upper corner and select “Switch Directory” option. Your default directory will be displayed and currently you logged in to it.
Step 3: Now we will create a new active directory. Either Click on Azure Active Directory Icon on home page or Click on Create Resource and select Azure Active Directory- Your default directory will be loaded
Step 4: Click on Create Tenant option and create your own Azure Active Directory
Step 5: New Active Directory has been created with name marsorgs. Now click on switch directory on your profile. 2 Active directories will be available.
Step 6: Select new AD and your login active directory will be changed. As this is a new AD, you will not have access to all your resources. You can access only AD here in this profile.
Step 7: From left side menu, select Azure Active Directory-marsorgs AD will be loaded. As you are the system administrator, role will be displayed as Global Administrator
Step 8: Now we will create couple of users in this AD and see the different roles. Click on Users > New User link to create a new user
We will create 2 users and assign the roles later. 1 user will be admin and other will be normal user
Step 9: We created 2 users, now we will assign the roles. Select User, Click on Assigned Roles. No roles will be displayed as we do not assign any roles. Click on Add Assignment and assign one role. Review the role names and its descriptions.
Step 10: Now login with both users and observe the profile and homepages. For both the users marsorgs will be the default directory, they do not have access to other resources except Active Directory. Both the users cannot delete the existing Active Directory, but they can create new active directory with in. Please check the roles against the users. Both the users can only create a new guest user
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