I have created a Web application in my local Azure AD which I can successfully use to authenticate members of my AD tenant with (using oAuth2 flow). Now I need to extend my supported scenarios to allow a global admin from an external Azure AD tenant to sign-up their company to use this application as well.
Based on the Microsoft Docs this scenario, Multi-Tenant, is supported...
Authentication Scenarios for Azure AD
Multi-Tenant: If you are building an application that can be used by users outside your organization, it must be registered in your company’s directory, but also must be registered in each organization’s directory that will be using the application. To make your application available in their directory, you can include a sign-up process for your customers that enables them to consent to your application. When they sign up for your application, they will be presented with a dialog that shows the permissions the application requires, and then the option to consent. Depending on the required permissions, an administrator in the other organization may be required to give consent. When the user or administrator consents, the application is registered in their directory. For more information, see Integrating Applications with Azure Active Directory.
From my reading it appears that at some point a global admin for the foreign tenant should be presented with a URL which they can follow ( login.microsoftonline.com/common/??? ) which will somehow cause the external application to precipitate like a morning dew into their Azure AD. However, if this is the correct approach I would appreciate a tokenized example of how one correctly builds the login URL for a multi-tenant external Azure AD application which a group admin can follow to allow access in their AzureAD.
Ok, through trial and failure I have found the solution. The group admin for the remote tenant needs to be provided with the following URL which will allow them to register your Azure AD application as an Enterprise Application in their tenant.
https://login.microsoftonline.com/{remoteTenantUrl.com}/adminconsent?client_id={YourAppsClientID}&redirect_uri={YourAppsCallbackPage}
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I've registered a single application in Azure AD for the following reasons.
Azure AD SSO (From Any Azure AD directory)
Read users, groups, and their members
Provided following permissions and granted admin consent.
NOTE: We still depend on some of the Azure AD Graph API. So, we have added the legacy API permissions.
I can able to contact the Azure AD using REST API and get the user, groups and other information.
When I try to sign in to the application from any other directory, I'm getting the following consent screen. I can able to provide the consent and proceed to log in.
But, when I try to login into the same directory, I'm not getting the consent screen even when I logged in with the Azure AD admin. Stuck in the following screen.
When I register separate applications for SSO and REST APIs, this issue doesn't occur.
I would like to know why I'm stuck in the above screen when combining both SSO and REST API permissions.
• Please check whether the correct Azure AD roles have been assigned to your account ID, i.e., Global Administrator, Cloud Application Administrator, Application Administrator, or owner of the app object through the as one of these is needed for you to access the application. Also, ensure that you have assigned your account ID the correct app role assignment for the admin consent to be allowed during the SSO signup process as below: -
You can check the app role assignments for your account ID through the Enterprise application blade and searching your application there, then opening it and selecting the users and groups blade, check the app role assignment that your account ID has to that application while also, giving ‘Azure Service Management’ api permissions for user_impersonification as below, thus ensuring that you account ID will be having correct API permissions.
Once, the above settings are configured correctly, you should be able to access the application through your admin credentials.
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 am developing a web application that allow users from any azure organization to give my application reading rights on their OneDrive using windows Graph-Api (scope: File.Read.All)
I registered a multi-tenants application in the azure portal and i configured the application like it is explained in the documentation
I need to Allow a user from other azure organisations to make a consentment for my application to read files content, but in my case i get a "Need admin aproval" after sending Authentication Code URL (tested with a user from another azure organization)
AuthenticationCode:https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/authorize?client_id=XXX&response_type=code&redirect_uri=YYY&scope=user.read files.read.all offline_access&state=ZZZ
What a user get after authetification to his Office-365 account
I know that there is other applications who do not have this issue, for exemple the application app.diagrams.net need only user consentment and not admin consentment even if it ask for read write scopes
diagrams.net AuthenticationCode:https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/authorize?client_id=b5ff67d6-3155-4fca-965a-59a3655c4476&response_type=code&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fapp.diagrams.net%2Fmicrosoft&scope=user.read files.readwrite.all offline_access&state=cId%3Db5ff67d6-3155-4fca-965a-59a3655c4476
What a user get with diagram application
This is not because of any particular scope. The answer to your question is discussed under "application provisioning" in Azure AD (AAD) terms. Put simply, an AAD application needs to be "provisioned" into an AAD tenant, and a tenant admin can choose whether users can initiate this by themselves or not. Here, it seems this is not allowed.
In more detail, when you create an AAD application, you create 2 objects: a representation of the application, and a "Service Principal" that handles access to that application. When you offer your AAD app to other tenants/organizations, they need their own service principal object to be able to access your application, and this happens through admin consent i.e. provisioning.
In general, there are 2 articles that you should take a look:
How and why applications are added to Azure AD
How to: Sign in any Azure Active Directory user using the multi-tenant application pattern
And these code samples should clarify the process:
Developing a Multi-tenant (SaaS) application with the Microsoft Identity Platform
Protect a multi-tenant SaaS web application that calls Microsoft Graph using Azure AD & OpenID Connect
EDIT: Correction: tenant admins can choose or not whether users are allowed to initiate app provisioning. Credits: #jasonJohnston.
I am making my first steps with Azure, trying to figure out how difficult it would be to spin up a mISV business where I would sell subscriptions to my app running in Azure (SaaS model).
To that end, I am trying to run the
Tailspin sample application
following instructions described
here.
To run the application, at least two Azure Active directories are needed. One AD belongs to the fictitious Tailspin software provider (in this case, me). The Tailspin Web application and the accompanying WebAPI are registered in this directory. Other AD belongs to a customer (in this case, again me). Customers sign up for the application.
I have a single Azure subscription, so I was forced to set things up like this:
I have registered Tailspin Web application and WebAPI in my Default AD. (I guess I could have created a specific AD for this purpose, but it was not strictly necessary.). The app and the API had to be created in this AD because they consume resources, and resources require a subscription. Putting the app and the API in a separate AD would require a separate Azure subscription.
I have marked both the Web app and the API as Multi-tenant (so that they can appear in other ADs after customer sign-up).
I have created another AD called TaiispinClient1 (the name is not important), with the idea to use it as a "customer" AD.
In TailspinClient1 AD I have created a guest user using one of my external email addresses. I could not create a regular AD user because creating regular users requires having a validated web domain and I did not want to go through validation at this point.
I have made sure that my guest user is every bit an admin user as the regular one:
In User Settings for the TailspinClient1 AD, "Users can register applications" is set to Yes (default)
In "Manage external collaboration settings", "Guest users permissions are limited" is set to No
My guest user has administrative directory roles (specifically, "Global administrator" and "Application administrator")
To resume, I ended up having two ADs in a single Azure subscription: the Default AD with the multi-tenant-enabled Tailspin app/API in it,
and the TailspinClient1 AD with an admin user (albeit external).
I am running the Tailspin application locally.
When I try to sign up to the application as the admin user from the TailspinClient1 AD, I am getting the following error message after I (successfully) authenticate myself:
AADSTS50020: User account <my TailspinClient1 admin user> from identity provider 'live.com' does not exist in tenant 'Default Directory' and cannot access the application <GUID of my Tailspin Web app> 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.
That message would have made sense had I forgotten to mark my Tailspin app/API as Multi-tenant, which I did not.
What am I missing here? Is this particular setup supported at all? Do I need to establish trust between those two ADs somehow?
Any help is appreciated.
We have an Azure resource app whose APIs we want to expose for access by a client app on Azure. The two apps are on different tenants. The users accessing the APIs (Office 365 account holders) are on different tenants.
The whole set up works when we manually provision a service principal on the tenant that is trying to authenticate from the client app against the resource app. By that I mean they are able to log in using their Office 365 account and are shown the consent screen.
If we do not provision a service principal on the AAD tenant of the user trying to authenticate, we get this error:
AADSTS65005 - The app needs access to a service <service> that your
organization org.onmicrosoft.com has not subscribed to or enabled. Contact
your IT Admin to review the configuration of your service subscriptions.
It is not feasible for us to provision a service principal on every tenant that is accessing our app (resource app). Is there something we are missing? Are we using the right flow?
You can find help for your scenario here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/active-directory-devhowto-multi-tenant-overview#understanding-user-and-admin-consent. (Scroll down to Multiple tiers in multiple tenants)
In the case of an API built by an
organization other than Microsoft, the developer of the API needs to
provide a way for their customers to consent the application into
their customers' tenants.
The recommended design is for the 3rd party
developer to build the API such that it can also function as a web
client to implement sign-up:
Follow the earlier sections to ensure
the API implements the multi-tenant application registration/code
requirements
In addition to exposing the API's scopes/roles, ensure
the registration includes the "Sign in and read user profile" Azure AD
permission (provided by default)
Implement a sign-in/sign-up page in
the web client, following the admin consent guidance discussed earlier
Once the user consents to the application, the service principal and
consent delegation links are created in their tenant, and the native
application can get tokens for the API
Basically, all of the parts that your app needs must be present as service principals in the customer's tenant. This is a requirement of AAD.
The only way for that to happen is for an admin to go through consent for the API and app separately, since they are registered in different tenants.
If they were registered in the same tenant, you could use the knownClientApplications property in the manifest to allow consenting to both at the same time.
In my case, I am exposing my own API and trying to access this API from my other Application (Client Credentials mode), I removed the default permission on both of the app(consuming app and api app) - "Azure Active Directory Graph-> User. Read" since I thought I don't need that but that caused this problem "The app needs access to a service .... that your organization has not subscribed to or enabled. Contact your IT Admin to review the configuration of your service+subscriptions.
I got the clue from the answer of #juunas - point 2. Thx Juunas