First of all I am pretty new to Azure AD, so just excuse if the question is vague. I was trying to understand when a Windows 10 Device is AD joined, which all users will get default 'Local Administrator Role'. Will it be :
Global Admin, Device Administrator and User who join device (as mentioned here)
or
Global Admin and User who adds the device (as mentioned here)
The two documents are talking two different things. Excuse me again if this is very straightforward to answer.
The first article applicable to only Azure AD join devices.
The second article is for all joined devices such as Hybrid Azure AD joined devices, Azure AD join devices, Azure AD registered devices
No, All users will not get default 'Local Administrator Role'.Azure AD adds only security principals to the local administrators group on the device as per first article.
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this is very new so not sure if anyone knows or has had experience in this.
So context first... Microsoft is pushing MSP's to migrate over to Granular Delegated Administrative Privileges (GDAP) from Delegated Administrative Privileges (DAP) in their partner center to manage client tenants.
So instead of just either being a helpdesk admin or a global admin, through DAP, you can now granularly assign roles to security groups, where these security groups are then applied on a per tenant basis.
So one of the administrative roles titled: Azure AD Joined Local Device Administrator can be assigned as a role to the security group, which then applies to a client tenant.
Traditionally, a Azure AD Joined Local Device Administrator lets an azure account on a tenant to be a local admin on an azure joined device.
After performing the GDAP migration, the security group from my parent tenant (MSP's tenant) which has the Azure AD Joined Local Device Administrator role, is now appearing under all my client tenants, in the normal area where you check which users or groups are Azure AD Joined Local Device Administrator.
So in theory, I understand this as, now I SHOULD be able to use an azure account from my parent tenant as a local admin on a device that is Azure joined from another tenant. Of course though when testing this, it did not work.
This would be a game changer in my opinion for local admin management on devices .. but would like to find out if I have the right idea the way I'm understanding this and if anyone might know if this is going to be the case?
Sorry for the length of this, I just couldn't find any information yet out there. Happy to clarify anything that I may have muddled up in my explanation.
Good afternoon, I am fairly new to Azure AD in general; I know my way around but I am stumped on something for a client of ours.
We have a client who has devices joined to Azure AD. They wish to create local administrator accounts on specific computers that only specific people can access and only that administrative account can be used on that workstation for administrative rights (just like a regular device local admin account)
For example:
CON-01 (PC name) should have a local admin account that's in Azure AD named JohnDoe_adm#contoso.com that can do elevated admin privileges' but this JohnDoe_adm#contoso.com account should not be allowed to have local administrative rights on CON-02. And vice versa. JaneDoe_adm#contoso.com should only have local administrative rights to CON-02 but her login can't be used on CON-01 for elevated permissions.
Devices will not be connected to the local AD frequently for policy updates (and we want to avoid VPN connection to the local AD DC). Client strictly wants these devices joined via Azure AD Joined but to have administrative accounts managed through Azure AD.
The clients accounts are synchronized in Azure with their local AD.
I saw that with a premium license for Azure you can add local administrators group on Azure AD joined devices but doing so will allow that user to have local administrative access on all devices that are joined and we are trying to prevent that.
Would it be possible to create a group called CONOTSO/CON-01 Local Administrators in Azure AD; and add JohnDoe_adm#contoso.com to this group and go onto CON-01 and manually apply CONOTSO/CON-01 Local Administrators group under Administrators in lusrmgr.msc on the workstation CON-01 ?
Or any suggestions to make this process easier to achieve what I am looking for?
Any advice is appreciated! Thanks!
You can do that, just not in the GUI. :-)
On an individual computer you can use "Net Group Administrators /Add AzureAD\JohnDoe_adm" to give that account admin rights to the machine.
You'll have to do that for each machine.
• Yes, you can create an Azure AD user, for example in this scenario, johndoe_adm#contoso.com as a member of the local administrators’ group on Azure AD joined devices. For that purpose, you will have to create a policy under ‘Endpoint Protection’ in Intune management portal for ‘local user/group membership’ for managing local admins of Windows 10/11 client devices. Please follow the below snapshots for more information: -
As shown in the above policy, you can create a policy for ‘local user group membership’. In it, you can create a profile for Windows 10/11 by selecting the appropriate option and selecting the correct local users’ group to be managed through it as shown below: -
Once the above options have been selected, then you can have the option of selecting Azure AD users or groups in the respective selected local administrators group so that the Azure AD users can be a member of local administrators’ group on client system as below: -
Thus, in this way, you can add an Azure AD user/group as a member of local administrators’ group on the Azure AD joined and Intune MDM managed and complaint system by assigning this policy on the said device groups.
• Also, please note that as you are saying that a particular Azure AD user, i.e., ABC should be a member of a local administrators’ group on an Azure AD joined device, viz., XYZ which is readily possible as per stated above but you also want that this user ABC should not be a member of another Azure AD joined device’s local administrators’ group, then for this purpose, you will have to create a separate Azure AD user for every Azure AD joined device and create one profile likewise for every Azure AD user/group as well as for every device that is going to be a part of the local administrators’ group on the client system which can be very hectic and time consuming given the options available in Intune MDM.
Thus, I would suggest you create a single Azure AD user for the purpose of adding it in the local administrators’ group on every Azure AD joined and Intune MDM managed Windows 10/11 device and further create a profile as shown above and deploy it on all the Windows 10/11 devices to be managed through Intune and required accordingly. Also, do keep the credentials of that Azure AD user with yourself only to maintain a level of confidentiality.
For more detailed information on the above, kindly refer the below link: -
https://www.anoopcnair.com/manage-local-admins-using-intune-group-mgmt/#:~:text=The%20local%20user%20group%20management,or%20Windows%2011%20local%20group.
We implemented SCIM for an enterprise app and it is working fine. We were told that we could add external AD groups to allow our partners users to be able to access the app as well. For example, Company A (us) uses Azure AD and wants to add a specific AD group from Company B (different network/domain) to be provisioned in the app. I was told this was possible, but I can't find documentation on setup of external groups.
I may have the terminology wrong which is probably not helping.
Any directions to documentation or examples would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Groups can only be provisioned/assigned to an application if they are managed in the same Azure AD tenant as the application that is configured to do provisioning. You can create a group in your Azure AD tenant and populate it with external/guest users as members - in that case, the group will be managed by your organization's tenant, but the members will be guests homed in another tenant.
I need to give access to Azure IoT hub to an external company. How do I do that?
I cant figure out how to add them in Azure active directory, while also trying to restrict their access only to the IOT hub.
If your intention is to grant others access to the Azure IoT hub and send messages, a simply IoT Hub device client shall be good enough.
I don't see the point of creating some user account in Azure AD.
You can create an new device client either in Azure Portal or with Device Explorer, either way, you need to share the "connection string" of the device with the external developers, by which they can connect to Azure IoT Hub to send/receive messages using azure-iot-sdk.
By the way, azure-iot-sdk has multiple platform(windows/linux/mbed, etc...), and multiple language(C#,java,C/C++,python etc...) support. So even with hardware developer, he or she can set things up pretty quickly.
That's how I share my Azure IoT Hub with others and hope it's helpful to you.
You can add an external user (a user from another Azure AD tenant) to your directory following the instructions documented here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-create-users-external/#add-external-users
Once you've added the external user to the directory, you can choose to grant them access to resources in your Azure subscription (they'll only have access to what you choose to grant them access to) just like you would any other resource.
In the following image, Peter Smith, from Fabrikam, Inc. (peter.smith#fabrikam.com) has been invited as an external user into Contoso Corp's tenant (contoso.com), and can be assigned the "Contributor" role for an IoT Hub:
The user, then, simply needs to sign in to the Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com), and switch to your company's Azure AD tenant. In the following image, Peter Smith, who is homed in the fabrikam.com tenant, can switch contexts to the Contoso Corp tenant because he is an external user there:
One the user has switched tenants, he'll be able to see any resources he's been granted access to in that tenant.
My organization has On Premises Active Directory and many AD Security groups and also has Azure presence (AD Sync up). Is it possible for me to write a code and run in Azure that can check if a specific user/logged in user is part of AD Security Group (On Prem)?
Thanks
It can be achieved by setting up Azure AD connect service. Once this is successfully done the synchronization component makes sure that the identity information for your on-premises users and groups is matching the cloud.
Once the sync is done you can query and get the user information one of which is the user's group information.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/documentation/articles/active-directory-aadconnect/