Simple case: I have two Azure Applications
TaskTrackerWebApp application has multiple Roles defined. I would like to add AG360DataApiClient application to one of the roles.
But no matter if i use Name or Application ID of the AG360DataApiClient i still cant find it.
In TaskTrackerWebApp i also defined a role with "Application" allowedmemberTypes
So, how would i add an application to another application role? Powershell voodoo?
Thank you.
Update: There was somethign wrong with my Application registration. I deleted and recreated it and now i can assign an application to a Role.
Well, your problem is that you are trying to add an application to a role on a blade that says Users and groups :)
Roles are given to apps as app permissions. Internally they are called appRoleAssignments actually, literally assigning a role to a service principal.
So go to the AG360DataApiClient app registration, go to Required permissions, and add & grant the App permissions. If you can't find the permissions there, make sure the roles have Application as an allowed member type.
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can anyone tell what "Roles and administrators" under App Registration (as well as Enterprise Application) is there for?
Seems that it always has "Cloud Application Administrator", but this role is NOT assigned to the service principal. I didn't find any documentation about it, maybe I'm missing something here.
Thank you!
Well, after searching/debugging for hours it seems that I just solved it a few minutes later when searching for a slightly different thing:
Role assignments at the organization-wide scope are added to and can
be seen in the list of single application role assignments.
Role assignments at the single application scope aren't added to and
can't be seen in the list of organization-wide scoped assignments.
So the Cloud Application Administrator is scoped to this app registration only. This also explains why I wasn't able to create SP's with this service principal (since it would need the organisation-wide assignment)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/roles/view-assignments
User needs to have read only access to two subscriptions, so added user to the Access
Control for both subscriptions and gave them the built in role [Readers]. Basically I want the user to be able to view Application Insights but not to create, delete, update anything else.
The user reported that they could not AI and instead saw this.
Digging into this error I got this documentation from MS.
The pertinent information is:
These items require write access to the whole Resource group that contains your website:
TLS/SSL Certificates and bindings (TLS/SSL certificates can be shared between sites in the same resource group and geo-location)
Alert rules
Autoscale settings
Application insights components
Web tests
I think the best way to proceed is to create a role that is the same as the built in Reader, and then assign write rights to Application Insights, add this role to the user, and remove the built-in reader. I am knew to Azure and would appreciate any advice or recommendation.
Try to grant the user with both Reader and Application Insights Component Contributor roles. For full list of built-in roles, see Azure built-in roles.
How about this role https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/roles-permissions-security#monitoring-reader
It allows for:
- Access Application Insights data and view data in Application Insights Analytics.
Let me know if you've found some other solution.
I have somewhat similar task: provide user with readonly access to Application Insights, but without using Contributor role or custom roles.
We are using VSTS/Azure DevOps to build and deploy our web services to Azure.
In the release step we use the Azure CLI build task to set up the environment for the web service. The build task uses a Service Connection to be authorized to do these actions.
The build task can create web services and deployment slots without issue, but when I try to instruct it to add a new reply url to the Azure AD application the web app uses to authenticate users, i see the following:
az ad app update --id 3e5a96e9-7311-4f92-869b-fbb5bbe8e41f --reply-urls http://mytestapp.azurewebsites.net
ERROR: Insufficient privileges to complete the operation.
The service connection used is an Azure RM service connection using a Service Principal. Is this correct? I'm guessing there is there a permission I need to set on the service principal, but which one?
Jayendran is correct. The user must be a member of Global Admin role in the directory because the Reply URL is added in the app registration.
You may also need to grant permissions to the app itself.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/quickstart-v1-integrate-apps-with-azure-ad
If you're looking to follow the least privileges principle and not assign the highest possible privilege available (as per your comment), I see 3 possible options that could work for you -
Owner for only a specific application (and NOT the Owner/Global Administrator for entire Azure AD)
You can add the user as Owner for only the specific application, which they need to manage (in your case, change reply URL's for).
Pro: Obviously the good thing about this approach is that this user gets to manage the app registration for only this particular application and none of the others in your Azure AD.
How: Go to "App Registrations" in Azure AD and navigate to the specific application. Now click on "Settings" and select "Owners"
Application Administrator Role
This one is a little more generic and a higher privilege in comparison to single application owner, as it gives the user access to manage application registrations for all applications.
Pro: Role is specific to only managing application registrations. It helps in a scenario where all applications need to be managed by this user.
How: Go to "Users" in your Azure AD and then select the specific user. Now go to "Directory Role" and add "Application Administrator Role"
Application Developer Role
This one is very similar to option 2 i.e. "Application administrator". Difference being that "Application developer" gets permissions for only those applications which they are developing, so the registration was done by them.
Pro: Good for user that is about to create and manage registrations for multiple applications.
How: Very similar to option 2 above.
More information about all the available roles and granular permissions that are used by these roles in Microsoft Docs:
Available Roles
I have a Java application running on premise in order to manage Azure app registrations and groups. For that purpose I registered an app and its service principle in Azure. I am using one of the samples under (https://github.com/Azure-Samples/aad-java-manage-users-groups-and-roles/). I am having trouble about giving right permissions to my app so that it can register other apps, create groups, assign them to groups and do client secret operations. I am receiving 403 unauthorized response. What are least possible Azure AD permissions for these operations? Which steps and options should I take/follow to implement that requirements in portal?
Thanks
UPDATE 1
Giving owner right is a big move. So that's not the answer I was looking for. That's why I am not marking it as a solution for my question but that would definitely work if you are willing to do that. Code also works.
Part of my question was least possible permissions. After experimenting I found that in app permissions:
Windows Azure Active Directory->Read Write Directory Data
Windows Azure Active Directory->Read Write All Applications
Microsoft Graph->Read Write Directory Data
Microsoft Graph->Read Write All Domains
Microsoft Graph->Read Write All Groups
solved the problem. Active Directory ones allowed me to create app and create group, graph ones allowed me to add app to group. Instead of Graph, adding app as User Access Admin also let me the app to group.
UPDATE 2
I am trying to repeat same process with another app. This time although I gave same permissions as I did in Update 1 this time adding new app to group fails with 403. Any idea how this really works? I am really confused...
You need create a service principal and give it Owner role to your subscription. You could check the code, the new created user is gived CONTRIBUTOR to your subscription. So, your sp need Owner role.
// Assign role to AD user, it needs `Owner` role.
RoleAssignment roleAssignment1 = authenticated.roleAssignments()
.define(raName1)
.forUser(user)
.withBuiltInRole(BuiltInRole.READER)
.withSubscriptionScope("3b4d41fa-e91d-4bc7-bc11-13d221b3b77d")
.create();
System.out.println("Created Role Assignment:");
You could do it on Azure Portal.
<your subscription>--><Access Control>--><Add>.
More information about this please refer to this official document.
Update:
I test in my lab, you don't need give your sp Graph permission, you only need give your sp your subscription Owner role. This is my test result.
I tried to find some information which application permission is necessary for a service principal to create another AAD applications / service principal but didn't find a least privilege setup.
Currently I assign the SP some directory roles like Directory Writers which probably is to much?
Does anybody know which application permission the SP needs to create another SP? Or does the SP needs directory roles?
If your app creates applications and then creates principals for them, then the Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy application permission on the Azure AD Graph can do that.
It does not allow the app to create service principals for other applications though. That requires quite big app permissions as you noticed.