I have an Azure Devops organization that is linked to an Azure Active Directory. This organization has projects and pipelines for deploying applications to App Services in the linked Azure AD.
Recently, one of my user account (the one with the Visual Studio Enterprise Subscription) was made the organization owner and all other project users were deleted. However, my account that is now the only user in the Azure DevOps organization is just a guest account type of the linked Azure Ad, and not an actual member of the Azure AD.
I need to add new users back to the organization but since my user account is just a guest of the linked Azure AD, when I try to add users, I get an info dialog that states that since I am only a Guest of the Azure AD domain, I can't see the domain members I want to add and so the add user process fails.
As I stated earlier, my account is the Organization Owner. I also assigned my guest user account to the Global Administrators role in the linked Azure AD, but I still cannot add domain users to the Azure DevOps organization.
This organization has production code in the repo as well as build and deployment pipelines that I do not want to lose access to or lose the ability to deploy to the App Services in the linked Azure AD, so I am concerned about taking any action until I know exactly what I need to do to be able to add users from the linked Azure AD into the organization.
Any advice as to how I can add users from the linked Azure AD back to this organization would be greatly appreciated.
This is just a guess, but DevOps could be looking at your userType and show the message based on that.
Global admin would definitely allow you to list the users.
You could try using PowerShell to change your userType from Guest to Member.
E.g. with AAD PowerShell v2:
Set-AzureADUser -ObjectId 'your-user-object-id-in-tenant' -UserType 'Member'
It's actually something that isn't super-well-known.
Guest/member and local/external user are two different things.
External users just become Guests by default, which restricts what they can do.
Add the guest users to Azure AD directly, before you try to give them access in DevOps. After adding a new guest user, that new guest can be given access to DevOps by your subscription admin.
Or create yourself a domain user in your Azure AD with the proper privileges too.
e.g. If your Azure AD domains is "MyMsdnAzureADDomain.onmicrosoft.com" (or a Custom Doamin like "mycompany.com" if you have such domain registered in Azure).
A) Create new domain user in MyMsdnAzureADDomain.onmicrosoft.com
The new user is would be MyNewUser#MyMsdnAzureADDomain.onmicrosoft.com
B) Give that new user full admin in Azure AD and your DevOps (or tailor your permissions to your needs).
C) Login into Azure using that new user to manage your DevOps.
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I was logged in to my AzureDevops account using my hotmail account.I then went to Organization Settings and then connected my Org to Azure AD.
After i logged out and logged in back again with the same account, i don't see anymore my projects which i was working on. I have disconnected my Azure AD and also tried switching directories but i am no longer able to see that particular organization anymore.
Any idea how to fix this or why this happened
Please check below points :
Try logging on to https://.visualstudio.com to see you can see the organization and projects, as stated in this.
Check Troubleshoot connecting to a project
You may not able to signin or access your organization unless your work or school account has the same email address as your Microsoft account.
Although you can add new work accounts to your organization, they're
treated as new users.
If you want to access all your work, including its history, you must
use the same sign-in addresses that you used before your organization
was connected to your Azure AD.
For that Add your Microsoft account as a member to your Azure AD Or
ask the owner of the organization who has proper permissions to map
any disconnected members to their Azure AD identities Or invite them
as guests into the Azure AD.
Invited user should use corresponding account, work/school account
for AAD based, personal account for the other.
So basically the user who makes the connection must confirm the following statements are true.
User exists in Azure AD as a member. If the user is an Azure AD guest, rather than member
User must have project collection administrator or owner of the organization
User must also have Azure Service Administrator or Coadministrator permissions for the Azure subscription that's linked to your organization in Azure DevOps.
User isn't using the Microsoft account identity that matches the Azure AD identity. For example, if the Microsoft account that users are currently using is jamalhartnett#fabrikam.com, the Azure AD identity they'll use after connecting is also jamalhartnett#fabrikam.com. Use a single identity that spans both applications, rather than two separate identities using the same email.
Add your work account as an administrator in your Azure DevOps organization
The AAD tenant should be same as the DevOps tenant to connect & Transfer the ownership of the organization to your work account.
Please see if you have followed the Prerequisites to Connect organization to Azure Active Directory
FAQ: to be refered
why dont i see my organization in the azure portal
why do i have to choose between a work or school account and my personal account
what if we cant use the same sign in addresses
Note: No other user than the owner of the organization will be able to see the organization under the “Azure DevOps organizations”
service in the Azure portal. Also, Azure DevOps does not support
multiple owners, like Azure services that support Role Based Access
Control (RBAC) do. An Azure DevOps organization will only have a
single owner at a time :reference
Please try to access https://aex.dev.azure.com/ and change domain to see if your organization is present in the list.
Or
You may need to open a support case on the Developer Community to help you out or raise a support request through azure portal.
References:
Lost organization after disconnecting it from Azure Active Directory-Stack Overflow
What not to do when Connecting Azure DevOps to
AzureAD |Josh Corrick |
Restore project - Azure DevOps Services | Microsoft Docs
We're a very small company, for unknown reasons our internal app infrastructure (based on PaaS VMs) was set up on the Azure subscription for a "personal" Windows Live account of an internal email address, with only that one user in the AD. (We also use the "correct" Azure instance, the AD is synced from the remnant of our old on-prem infrastructure and our Office 365 is based on it.)
We're about to recruit a second developer, I want to give him some level of access to our app infrastructure but not the global admin that sharing the existing single account would provide. I've experimentally added another user to the Azure AD as a global admin (so it should have access to everything) but when I log in with that user it takes me to the portal for the default free personal Azure instance you get if there's nothing set up. If I paste in a URL for a resource in the account it's global admin for I get "You do not have access" (403). (Audit trail of the user in Azure AD shows it logged in.)
Is there an inherent restriction on this type of account (in which case I'll have to bite the bullet and migrate the infrastructure where it belongs) or should I be able to expect this user to be able to access the right portal - and if so what do I need to do to get that to happen?
Having Global Admin role in Azure AD does not give you access to Azure resources, only to manage users etc. in Azure AD.
You need to add e.g. Owner/Contributor role on the subscription to the user through the Access Control (IAM) tab.
I started learning Microsoft Azure but I'm stuck
Can anyone tell me what is the difference between Microsoft account vs tenant vs Subscription in detail?
When you say "Microsoft account", this usually refers to personal Microsoft accounts (outlook.com/live.com/hotmail.com).
But it could also refer to organizational Azure Active Directory accounts.
They are both kinds of user accounts, both types can exist as members in an Azure Active Directory "tenant".
This tenant is basically an instance of Azure AD for your users, in your control.
When you log in to Azure, you are logging in to Azure AD.
An Azure subscription is where you deploy your services, create resources like databases etc.
A subscription is always linked to an Azure AD tenant.
The users in this linked tenant can be given roles in the subscription to access/modify resources.
If anyone wants access to the subscription, they need to be added to the Azure AD tenant first.
This can be done by creating them an account there, or by inviting them by their email as a "guest".
microsoft account: the one used to log in
tenant: your azure active directory (usually the default is [account].onmicrosoft.com
subscription: your microsoft azure subscription, the one used to create services/ deploy your applications
I don't really understand why on this case. My company has an azure subscription for development/testing environment.
At the beginning I am co-admin on this subscription with my Microsoft account. Now I need to manage applications under Azure AD of that subscription. So my Microsoft Account is leveraged to Global Admin of this Azure AD.
But even my MS account is leveraged to Global Admin, I cannot see or have access to Azure AD.
After searching around and based on this article:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dstfs/2015/12/23/issues-with-azure-active-directory-guest-users-in-aad-backed-visual-studio-team-services-accounts/
I am GUEST (user type) on Azure AD, so even I am global admin, I still cannot have access to this Azure AD.
From the link, this happens because:
One way you can become an AAD GUEST is when you are made a co-admin on an Azure subscription before being added to the AAD associated with it
It can be fixed by using powershell like #CtrlDo's answer. But you have to create an global admin with work/school account since this approach does not work with Microsoft account:
PowerShell - Connecting to Azure Active Directory using Microsoft Account
We have another approach which can be done in the UI that we think it's simpler:
Remove my account out of co-admins of subscription.
Remove my account out of Azure AD.
Add my account back to Azure AD as Global Admin.
Add my account back to be co-admin on subscription.
That does work perfectly
When you were added to the AAD, your user type might have been set to "guest"
See https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-create-users/ for more information.
See https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dstfs/2015/12/23/issues-with-azure-active-directory-guest-users-in-aad-backed-visual-studio-team-services-accounts/ for an older post on how to view the issue in powershell and fix it.
I've set up Azure AD authentication on a existing web app and that works ok.
I then want to add "Users in partner companies" via CSV upload. But the account I use to administer Azure is my company account so the option is not available.
So I then created a APPNAME.onmicrosoft.com account.
But when I log in to the portal with that, it's not linked to any subscriptions so obviously it can't add any users to the AD.
And I can't add the user to the subscription as they are not recognised.
I appreciate I'm probably missing/misunderstanding something fundamental but can anyone explain what I need to do to be able to enable B2B collaboration?
If you look at your list of subscriptions is APPNAME.onmicrosoft.com the default directory for any subscription? You currently can't do B2B invites unless it is the default directory for some Azure subscription and unless you pick APPNAME.onmicrosoft.com from the drop down in the top right of the portal. We have had to create a new empty Azure subscription with APPNAME.onmicrosoft.com as the default directory and make the B2B a subscription admin.
Now in order to switch the default directory of the subscription my recollection is that you have to be logged in with a Microsoft account (LiveID) rather than an organizational account.