We're trying to invite users (including those from different ADs) to ours in order to give them access to our enterprise app. We are using the AD to manage the app's users and permissions.
We send them an email to join our AD as a guest user.
However, when they already have an Azure AD account connected to a local AD (that's federated), we don't have the permission to create an account on our side.
There are a few articles on this problem including (resending invites till it works, asking them to add our organization to trusted, and creating our own account for them)
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams/Invitation-redemption-failed-AADB2B-0001/td-p/292175
http://answers.flyppdevportal.com/MVC/Post/Thread/d9c92fea-a554-4c7a-91af-30016aa35111?category=windowsazuread
Our objective is to use their AD sign in for our apps as well. Is there an easy way, such as copying their AD profile or sending them a link that they have to simply click "Yes" without having to do much IT work on their side? Thank you!
Here's an example from a different post:
They have a local ad and an azure ad setup, but the specific user I was trying to invite doesn't have an account in their azure ad.
We can't create an azure ad account for them
They have to give the user an azure ad account
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I am trying to setup Azure AD integration with our partner identities. I have few providers that I need to support and they support SAML and WS-Fed. I am trying to use Azure AD External Identities to add these providers to my Azure AD tenant.
However, reading through this article, it seems like SAML integrations are invitation based.
I want users to be able to login without an invitation. How can I do this with Azure AD?
Here are my needs:
After adding the external idp, users should be able to login using their own credentails via their idp. No additional information needed to use an app.
I should be able to grant them access to custom apps (mandatory) and azure resources (optional)
Choose what idp's are allowed per app? (if possible)
Thanks in advance.
Question 1: After adding the external idp, users should be able to login using their own credentials via their idp. No additional information needed to use an app.
Answer:
We can implement Guest users redemption using direct link or a common endpoint instead of email invitation. A guest user clicks the app link, reviews and accepts the privacy terms, and then seamlessly accesses the app.
Using Common endpoint : Guest users can now sign in to your multi-tenant or Microsoft first-party apps through a common endpoint (URL), for example https://myapps.microsoft.com. Previously, a common URL would redirect a guest user to their home tenant instead of your resource tenant for authentication, so a tenant-specific link was required (for example https://myapps.microsoft.com/?tenantid=). Now the guest user can go to the application's common URL, choose Sign-in options, and then select Sign in to an organization. The user then types the name of your organization.
Using Direct Link: As an alternative to the invitation email or an application's common URL, you can give a guest a direct link to your app or portal. You first need to add the guest user to your directory via the Azure Portal or Powershell Then you can use any of the customizable ways to deploy applications to users, including direct sign-on links. When a guest uses a direct link instead of the invitation email, they’ll still be guided through the first-time consent experience.
Reference:
Add B2B guests without an invitation link or email - Azure AD
Invitation redemption in B2B collaboration - Azure AD
Question 2 : I should be able to grant them access to custom apps (mandatory) and azure resources (optional)
Answer: Add the Users as Guest to Azure active Directory but by default they will be sent an invitation even if they don’t open it you can assign an app in your enterprise application for them to use .
Most federated applications that support SAML 2.0, WS-Federation, or OpenID connect also support the ability for users to start at the application, and then get signed in through Azure AD either by automatic redirection or by clicking on a link to sign in. This is known as service provider-initiated sign-on, and most federated applications in the Azure AD application gallery
Reference:
End-user experiences for applications - Azure Active Directory
Quickstart: Add guest users in the Azure portal - Azure AD
To Provide the Guest user access to azure resources you can manually add a role to the users.
Question 3: Choose what idp's are allowed per app?
Answer: Create different user flows and add desired IDPs to the user flows and then assign applications registered in Azure AD to the user flows depending on which IDPs are needed for given application.
Reference:
Add a self-service sign-up user flow - Azure AD
Question 4: I added Okta as an External Identity using SAML in my Azure AD. Created an "App Registration" as multi-tenant. But I am getting this error.
AADSTS50020: User account 'xxx' from identity provider 'http://www.okta.com/xxxxx' does not exist in tenant '' and cannot access the application '0000000c-0000-0000-c000-000000000000'(Microsoft App Access Panel) in that tenant. The account needs to be added as an external user in the tenant first. Sign out and sign in again with a different Azure Active Directory user account.
Solution: Please Ensure User is added to one of the Partner Admin Groups i.e. AdminAgents in the Partner tenant.
Reference:
Manage Auth access for cloud solution providers.
Question 5: Steps for setting self service signup for an application.
Test Scenario in my Lab
Azure AD with an application registered in application registrations blade.
Another AD tenant with users.
Step 1: In the above external identities collaboration settings please make sure to have enable guest user self service enabled.
If it is not enabled then you can’t create a self service flow and you will get the below error when a user from other tenant is trying to access the app.
Step 2: Create a user flow by going to the user flow blade and creating a new flow.
Step 3: After you have created the user flow , click on the User flow and go to application blade and click add application.
Now search for the application you want to provide the self service signup to and click on select and you will have now enable the self service sign up for users when they try to access your application.
Output:
Once the above settings are done you can access the url to your app. Provide the user of the different ad tenant and you will get output as below .Click on create a new one .
Once the user from other AD tenant have accepted it they are successfully registered as guest users in your tenant.
If they accept the above then they will be able to access the app from now as a guest.
I have a requirement where we want the users to use their social accounts to login into our application (i.e. get an ID Token) through Azure B2C. I configured the Identity Provider and create a user flow for Sign in only. We don't want Users to Sign Up because that through Invitation only. When I use the "Invite User" to the live.com account and the user accepts the invitation and tries to login into the application, I get the below error.
AADB2C99002 User does not exist. Please sign up before you can sign in.
But the user is existing as a Guest User.
When I allow Sign up and the user actually does the Sign-up and then login in, it works.
Questions:
Why isn't the Guest User allowed to access the application? What needs to be done for the same to work?
If it's not possible, I don't want the user to be a "member" to avoid maintaining their credentials. I want the users to use their social accounts only.
As I don't have the requirement of self sign-up and the only invitation-based, how do I achieve my requirement?
Thanks,
Neel
Please see the Overview of user accounts in Azure Active Directory B2C.
Guest account - A guest account can only be a Microsoft account or an Azure Active Directory user that can be used to access applications
or manage tenants.
Consumer account - A consumer account is used by a user of the applications you've registered with Azure AD B2C. Consumer accounts
can be created by:
The user going through a sign-up user flow in an Azure AD B2C application
Using Microsoft Graph API
Using the Azure portal
Guest account is specifically distinguished from Consumer account. So Guest user can't sign into B2C application directly.
Your three questions are actually the same question: How to log in a social account without managing its credentials?
Please refer to Add an identity provider to your Azure Active Directory B2C tenant.
In order to let live.com account sign in, you need to Set up sign-in with a Microsoft account using Azure Active Directory B2C. Choose the policy type (User flow or Custom policy) you want to find the corresponding steps.
If you need your customers from other social idps such as Facebook, Google and so on, you can find the corresponding article on the left.
Recently I am starting to get an error when trying to invite a guest user to my Azure AD B2C tenant, for only user from a specific domain. The reason i'm inviting is to share the administration process with the specified user.
The error i'm getting is: User account is disabled
So far what I've tried:
Using the Users > New guest user" UI in Azure AD blade.
Using the "Organizational relationships > New guest user" UI in Azure AD blade.
Using the Users > New guest user" UI in Azure AD B2C blade.
Using graph api invitations endpoints.
Observation: Only happen for user from specific domain (External Azure D) but works for those with Microsoft account.
Just for everyone's benefit here I'm posting the answer after consulting with Microsoft support.
There are 2 possible issues that might cause you unable to invite the Guest user to the Azure AD:
Users are not properly deleted. When you search for the user email, it might not be visible in the UI, but still unable to invite. It's partly because the UI has some limited search capabilities (exact/startswith email or name only).
Solution: You can use graph api to query for the user. You should definitely try to look for the user based on the OtherMails field.
User you're trying to invite is from an Azure AD tenant that is also one of identity provider trusted in your Azure AD B2C. This is the cause of the issue with my implementation that I found.
When the user use their Azure AD credential logging in for the 1st time to my application (Azure AD B2C), a "social account" is created automatically in the Azure AD B2C. This account is created with the UserPrincipalName in the format of cpim_guid#yourtenant.onmicrosoft.com, and AccountEnabled false (disabled). Their Azure AD email will be in the OtherMails property. This is why you can't find the user by their email in the UI, and you have to know the exact name they use in their Azure AD in order to find them.
Solution: If you can find in the UI, typically their MemberType is Member Source is External Azure AD, you can just delete the user. If not, use graph api to query for their email in OtherMails property. Then immediately invite the user as guest. They should have no problem logging in to the B2C application again as the social account will be created automatically.
Note: Ensure that you don't use Azure AD B2C policies that adds additional attributes to the user logging in using social account. If yes, you'd need some other strategy for deleting the user, inviting as guest, recreating the social account, and restoring back the additional attributes.
I want to access the Azure AD Graph Explorer using my administrator account. When I try to access it, it shows this error:
Selected user account does not exist in tenant graphExplorerMT and cannot access the application d3ce4cf8-6810-442d-b42e-375e14710095 in that tenant. The account needs to be added as an external user in the tenant first. Please use a different account.
What shall I do?
You should probably try with a user that is internal to the AAD or add your MS account as an external user to it.
The Azure subscription admin is not necessarily part of the Azure Active Directory.
For Azure AD Graph Explorer, you can only use the member account(internal) to sign in, such as xxx.onmicrosoft.com.
You cannot use a guest user account(external) to sign in AAD Graph Explorer.
Solutions:
Try to sign in AAD Graph Explorer with a member account.
According to this answer on Microsoft's forum, this does not work with Microsoft accounts.
Are you trying to sign in using a Microsoft account (outlook/live) into https://graphexplorer.azurewebsites.net/ ?
Azure AD Graph explorer cannot authenticate social accounts and only works with work or school accounts in Azure AD.
You would have to use the latest MS graph, if you want to use MSA accounts
I've logged in to azure portal using my work account (Azure AD) and created new vsts account and team project. I can now login to vsts using my work account and add my colleagues from the same AD to team project.
Is it possible to add users/stakeholders from another company to my team project if I don't have admin access to my company's AD?
EDIT:
please vote for multi-tenant authentication in VSTS on uservoice
Answer from Microsoft support:
Any user who wants to use VSTS will have to be in that AAD. Normally they would get added as an MSA account, or an account in another AAD.
Me: I was thinking about creating my own AAD in Azure and adding users from another AAD to it, but I’m not sure whether they will still be able to log in using their corporate login and in case their account will be disabled in their AAD, it will be disabled also in my AAD.
If it is linked to an AAD, the accounts have to be in there somehow.
If he creates his own AAD and doesn’t have admin access to the corp aad, users will be added as MSA users.
If he did add corp users as AAD users (not MSA users) in his AAD and they were deleted/disabled in the native AAD, they would not be
able to logon to his VSTS. (Same is true for MSA users, if the MSA
account is deleted/disabled they couldn’t logon to VSTS even though
they were in his AAD as #EXT)
Accoording to this doc, no.
Q: Why can't some users sign in?
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