I would like to send a welcome email to the user when the Azure AD admin assigns the user to the application (enterprise or custom). It would be nice to use a custom template to define an access URL and maybe some additional info (how to use, some rules, etc.). I haven't found anything similar in the Azure portal.
Does Azure AD provide such functionality? Or should I build custom implementation (Graph API, EventGrid + Azure Functions, SCIM protocol, etc.)?
From what I understand, at the very base, you want an email to be sent whenever a user is assigned to an enterprise application (or custom - assuming that also falls under same). I assume you do not need to know much about who actually assigned the permissions. Either way, with the query below you should have enough to get going.
As far as I know there's no native support for this in AD (I couldn't find anything at all that's available but I could be wrong) but a workaround for us was to do it using Log Analytics + Azure Logic App. While our use case is slightly different (we use it to monitor and be alerted for logins to a specific account), the same logic might apply to you - I put together a few lines to query log analytics. but I couldn't get the alert part working - Azure could just be sleepy right now.
EDIT: Alert worked the following day. Just needed some time to warm up I guess.
Give it a try:
Make sure Azure AD has diagnostic settings configured to send logs to a Log Workspace
Query the workspace using the following:
AuditLogs
| where TimeGenerated > ago(5m) //Change as required
| where ActivityDisplayName has "Add app role assignment grant to user"
| project Time = TimeGenerated, Activity = ActivityDisplayName, Application=parse_json(TargetResources)[0].displayName, User=parse_json(TargetResources)[1].userPrincipalName
| where Application contains "myapp"
Create an alert from Log Analytics (hopefully you get it working right away - each alert cost USD 1.50/month).
(a) You will need to create an Action Group
(b) Under Action Group, configure your email in the Notifications.
(c) You will need to come back to reconfigure an Action field to the Logic App you will create below.
Create a Logic App and start with an HTTP connector as the trigger to receive the content in JSON format.
Setup a Send an Email (v2) action with all variables and such, or another connector if applicable in your case. Customise the email in HTML
One alternative to using Log Analytics and Alerts could also be to use PowerShell to query AAD logs and then parse the information to Logic App through the HTTP POST Url that shows up when you save the HTTP Connector.
Another alternative to using the HTTP Connector could be to use the O365 connector with trigger When a new email arrives (v3)
Things to consider:
There's at least a 5 minutes delay between the time the event is logged and triggered. This is just the way the alert query works.
You will need to login to Logic App using the mailbox from which you want to send that email. That's something you might want to manage separately - expiring credentials etc.
Hope this gives you some ideas.
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My requirements are to find all the users not logged in via Azure AD since last 45 days and last 90days and take action. That is,
A daily nightly job to run on Azure AD and if it finds users not login since last 45days; it should automatically disable the users.
A daily nightly job to run on Azure AD and if it finds users not login since last 90days or previous inactive users; it should delete the users.
This link looks similar where it’s going via a review process. However, my requirements are bit simple.
Thanks.
There are several options for identifying and removing stale/inactive users:
The access review feature you linked for identifying and removing inactive users is the most seamless, built-in way to achieve this at the moment. You can specify the "days inactive" and then remove the accounts either after the review period passes or after no reviewer has responded. To create access reviews and identify inactive users, you do need to have a Premium P2 license.
Alternatively though, you could use an Azure Automation account or Azure Logic app to achieve the same thing. For instance, you could create an Azure Automation Powershell runbook with a daily schedule that checks the Azure AD sign-in logs and deletes the accounts based on the condition of whether they have recently signed in (i.e. where max_TimeGenerated <= ago(45d)). There is an example blog post here that implements this logic. Note that to update the accountEnabled property of admin users, you need to use delegate permissions which need to run in the context of a user.
Another option is to query based on the lastSignInDateTime property.
The documentation for How To Manage Inactive Users has an example of how to query users who haven't signed in after a certain date using Microsoft Graph API.
Example:
https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users?filter=signInActivity/lastSignInDateTime le 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z
To test the call, you can Sign in to Graph Explorer using the Global Administrator account of your tenant and execute the GET call.
Permissions Required:
Directory.AccessAsUser.All
Directory.Read.All
The SignInActivity property/endpoint is documented in detail here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/user-list?view=graph-rest-beta&tabs=http#example-3--list-users-including-their-last-sign-in-time
If you don't want the full list of users, you can also search for a specific user by name and evaluate the lastSignInDateTime:
https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users?$filter=startswith(displayName,'marileet')&$select=displayName,signInActivity
I have hooked up a Power App to Azure Application Insights to track useage.
When the events are logged, the user ID is recorded with the Azure Active Directory ID (a Guid).
Whilst I can interrogate AAD for the user ID manually to get the UPN, is there any way in the App Insights Data Explorer to map the user ID to the UPN.
pageViews
| where timestamp > datetime(2021-02-04 14:30:00)
| project user_AuthenticatedId, '[UPN]'
Unfortunately, short answer is no for default telemetry like page view. Inbuilt telemetry does not capture any PII for data compliance (for example, UPN user#example.com reveals the user email).
However, you can write custom trace to capture that. Example:
Trace(
"App Feedback",
TraceSeverity.Information,
{
UserName: User().FullName,
UserEmail: User().Email
}
);
Note: If you are logging any personnel data, you will need to consider any data compliance obligations, such as GDPR, that you might also need to implement.
For details, refer Analyze app telemetry using Application Insights.
Well, it was a bit of a round-a-bout way of doing this, but I created a Power Automate flow using various HTTP REST calls.
Firstly, I pulled the list of User IDs from App Insights using the REST Api with a query and then cycled over the response making HTTP requests to the MS Graph API requesting the user information.
It needed an Azure App Registration with appropriate security access to call into Graph but it was a simple task end the end.
I've been using Azure API Management recently, and I would like to know if there is a way to detect the sign up process performed from the included Developer Portal.
Basically I need to be able to get the user unique id, to be able to map data stored in a database.
Is configuring Delegation the only way to capture this event?
Try to enable the Resource Logs, it includes the userId.
Reference - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/api-management-howto-use-azure-monitor#resource-logs
I am searching a way to automate some email reporting
I have build a process with a logic app to do that. The problem is when I want to create an API connection to office 365 with another account than mine (for example email.reporting#xxx.com), I cannot because I am log with my personal account, so it always use my account to create the API connection.
I cannot also log to the portal with this other account because it doesn't have any access. What is the best way to do that?
Is it possible to give the access to the logic app to this other account then I can access to it and change the connection?
Or there is a trick that allow to change api connection directly?
Thanks
In my test I could use two different account to send mails, cause you don't show how you add account, maybe you could refer to my below steps.
After I set an action to send mail then I add other action to send mail, choose Change connection, then choose Add new, it will pop up a page you could choose existing account also could Use another account.
I am trying to write an app that, upon receiving the credentials of an Azure user, will be able to show him various pieces of information using the Azure billing apis.
However, the following git sample that shows how to use one of those apis, lists a series of steps that should be done in the Azure cloud platform in order for things to work, and these steps need to be done by the user himself. Specifically, step 1 talks about registering an app and configuring it so that it has access and permissions to use the apis.
Only after those steps, will I be able to access the billing apis and retrieve his information.
Seeing as how I don't want the user to have to do anything after he gives me his username and password, is there an API or some other automated way with which I can register my app to view his account?
https://github.com/Azure-Samples/billing-dotnet-usage-api
Ideally, I would want some sort of imaginary code that maybe looks like:
someObj obj = someAPI.loginToAzureWithCredentials("123456", "someUserName")
obj.registerApplication();
Obviously the "code" is very lacking in details, but it's just for emphasizing what I'm searching for.