Azure AD have B2B collaboration for inviting external users.
But what if i wan't to invite an external Azure service that have a MSI.
Is it possible to create an Azure AD group and add a external(another subscription/tenant in Azure) MSI which i can then use to grant access to resources?
Say I wan't to allow a B2B partners Data Factory access to SQL database of ours and I do not wan't to give them a SQL Login.
MSIs are service principals which cannot be invited to other tenants. They are always tenant-specific.
The scenario sounds like you need to give access to something connected to your tenant.
I would suggest creating an App registration (Application),
adding a key, and giving those credentials to the other service.
You can then give the application access to your Azure subscription etc.
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How can i have an option where users can register for an account in azure active directory if they don't already have an account using their own email? Currently i can only see an option to manually add users in through azure portal but I want to be able to allow users to register to my azure active directory programmatically through a .NET web app.
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management service, which helps your employees sign in and access resources.
That means you need to manage the users under your organization's tenant.
All the users are employees of a company. Only in this way can users be managed easily under the same tenant.
So you need create accounts for your employees. There is not a option to make them register to Azure AD. I believe every company will provide work accounts to employees rather than asking employees to register.
If you want to work with your customers, let them register with your tenants, you should consider Azure AD B2C. It provides business-to-customer identity as a service, which allows customers to register for an account in Azure AD B2C tenant.
What is the difference between IAM and Azure AD on the azure cloud?
They don't make it clear.
Identity Access Management is what they call the Role-Based Access Control system in Azure subscriptions. Basically, it allows you to give users certain roles on subscriptions, resource groups, or individual resources.
Azure AD is a more general identity management solution. It allows you to manage users and applications, users' access to those applications and more. Calling it the "same as on-prem AD" is not really quite right, since their features differ quite a lot. The general purpose is similar to on-prem AD of course.
Logically Azure subscriptions exist within one Azure AD (they are linked to one). But having your user account in Azure AD does not give you access to Azure subscriptions! In addition to a user having to be a member (or invited guest user) of the AAD assigned to the subscription, you also have to use the RBAC (IAM) system to assign roles for users.
Azure AD is for Authentiction - User must prove who they are using a Username and Password
IAM (RBAC) is for Authorization - a User is assigned a role or permissions to use a specific resource.
What is the difference between IAM and Azure AD on the azure cloud?
Azure IAM is Azure Role-Based Access control (RBAC). Work for Azure subscription, to manage Azure resources.
Using RBAC, you can segregate duties within your team and grant only
the amount of access to users that they need to perform their jobs.
Instead of giving everybody unrestricted permissions in your Azure
subscription or resources, you can allow only certain actions. For
example, use RBAC to let one employee manage virtual machines in a
subscription, while another can manage SQL databases within the same
subscription.
Azure AD same as on-prem AD, create users to access or manage some applications.
Azure IAM same as Active directory group(have some permissions), Azure AD users in this group will have those permissions.
Identify and access management (IAM) is called RBAC (Role-Based Access Control). This is used to grant level of access such as reader , contributor , owner to Azure resources and hence perform role assignment.
Azure AD is identity management solution for Azure. It is a live directory or a database that stores the user accounts and their password.
Is there a recommended Azure AD strategy for managing internal and our partner users?
We know we can add external users to our Azure AD but we would like a clear separation between the internal and partners users.
I see in Azure you can add another Azure AD so wondering if we can add a new just for external users. But I'm not sure what effect this would have to our current company Azure AD and whether it would have access and/or impact on the features we have in our Azure AD (e.g. O365/Sharepoint/etc).
Or is it recommended just to use groups in Azure AD to separate the internal and external users?
is it recommended just to use groups in Azure AD to separate the
internal and external users?
I think this is the best way to manage your users and partner users.
If you add partner users to another Azure AD, they will not access your default Azure AD resources and app.
Different Azure AD have different resource groups and APP.
I do not have much experience with AD in general. I have a web app in Azure and I want to authenticate users in the app using Azure AD and I read a bit about Azure AD B2B option but I simply still do not understand it.
What I do now in steps:
Create a new Azure Directory
In that directory I go to Azure Active Directory (service)
Register my application
Go to Users/all Users/ New guest user and add the users of the application
Job done
What is the difference between me doing this and the Active Directory B2B?
Azure AD business-to-business (B2B) collaboration capabilities enable any organization using Azure AD to work safely and securely with users from any other organization, small or large. Those organizations can be with Azure AD or without, or even with an IT organization or without. +
Organizations using Azure AD can provide access to documents, resources, and applications to their partners, while maintaining complete control over their own corporate data. Developers can use the Azure AD business-to-business APIs to write applications that bring two organizations together in more securely. Also, it's pretty easy for end users to navigate.
Enable users from other organization to access the application is one kind of Azure AD B2B. And the Azure AD B2B is enabled by invite the other users to your organization tenant.
More details bout Azure AD B2B, please refer the link below:
What is Azure AD B2B collaboration
Do we need Azure Active directory premium to do Role-based or Group based Authorization ?
I ask this question because my Azure portal is not giving me "Users" tab as mentioned in this link.
Group-based access is a Basic/Premium feature as defined here.
Using Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) with an Azure AD Premium or Azure AD Basic license, you can use groups to assign access to a SaaS application that's integrated with Azure AD.
You can only assign individual users to apps after you enable User assignment required to access app. But the Users tab should definitely be available though.