We have easily sent up our AD with Azure SQL which now we can login and run queries, etc... with SSMS. Now we would like to set our apps in Azure App Services to run as an AD user. This would be to mimic IIS apps using an application pool that's is running as an AD user. I have not found a clear blog or step by step guide on how to do this. any help would be greatly appreciated.
UPDATE:
This is specifically to be able to connect to the database using AD Credentials and not using SQL Credentials.
Azure Active Directory authentication for SQL Database or SQL Data Warehouse supports the following methods of connecting to a database using Azure AD identities( refer here):
Using integrated Windows authentication
Using an Azure AD principal name and a password
Using Application token authentication
And the scenario you mentioned is not support. We can create an application in Azure AD and using the token authentication for this scenario. More detail about Azure AD authentication, you can refer the link below:
Configure and manage Azure Active Directory authentication with SQL Database or SQL Data Warehouse- Azure AD token
In addition, if you have any idea or feedback about Azure SQL database, you can submit them from here.
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When setting up a Data Migration Project, migrating from SQL database to Azure SQL Database in Azure Portal, I can only see the option to connect to the Target database using SQL Login Authentication Type.
I expect to see more options - like Azure AD integrated Mode.
I am in Azure AD Group assigned as SQL Admin on the Azure SQL Server.
Is any other Authentication Type supported for the target Azure Server?
If others are support, what do I need to do to get them to be available in the Authentication Option for the target server?
Thank you
The following tutorial spells out that only SQL Logins are currently supported:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dms/tutorial-sql-server-to-azure-sql#specify-target-details
I have been trying to find out some nodejs code in order to connect from my nodeJs application to Azure SQL db via Azure AD authentication. But this will involve only my email Id. I don't have any Azure AD app as this will be from an email ID. I usually login onto my Azure SQL DB using my email Id and choosing the option 'Azure Active Directory-Universal with MFA' from MSSMS. Is there any way that we can replicate this from Code in NodeJs
If you want to Use Azure Active Directory authentication for your Azure SQL database, you must configure Azure AD for it.
Please ref this tutorial: Configure and manage Azure AD authentication with Azure SQL
SSMS and SqlPackage.exe are the only tools currently enabled for MFA through Active Directory Universal Authentication.
For your question "Is there any way that we can replicate this from Code in NodeJs", the answer is no, there isn't. Node.js only support these types:
authentication.type
Type of the authentication method, valid types are default, ntlm,
azure-active-directory-password, azure-active-directory-access-token,
azure-active-directory-msi-vm, or azure-active-directory-msi-app-service
Ref: https://tediousjs.github.io/tedious/api-connection.html
HTH.
How to configure a Windows authentication login for an Azure SQL database?
Azure SQL database doesn't support Windows authentication for now. Please reference this document Authentication:
SQL Database supports two types of authentication:
SQL Authentication:
This authentication method uses a username and password. When you created the SQL Database server for your database, you specified a "server admin" login with a username and password. Using these credentials, you can authenticate to any database on that server as the database owner, or "dbo."
Azure Active Directory Authentication:
This authentication method uses identities managed by Azure Active Directory and is supported for managed and integrated domains. If you want to use Azure Active Directory Authentication, you must create another server admin called the "Azure AD admin," which is allowed to administer Azure AD users and groups. This admin can also perform all operations that a regular server admin can. See Connecting to SQL Database By Using Azure Active Directory Authentication for a walkthrough of how to create an Azure AD admin to enable Azure Active Directory Authentication.
Reference tutorial: Use Azure Active Directory Authentication for authentication with SQL.
That means that you can not configure a Windows authentication login for an Azure SQL database.
Reference blog: Login to SQL Azure using Windows Authentication.
Hope this helps.
I am presently working on an App , which has its backend services in azure ( database + server ) . The database here is MS SQL .I am supposed to write an API for login in NodeJS .
Since I am new to the field of programming and web development, I am totally unable to figure this out ?
I am also supposed to use Azure Active Directory ....
Azure AD not only provides authenticate, it also is a user provider. If you want to integrate Azure AD in your application, the authentication users via Azure AD should be in your Azure AD tenant, and also be stored by Azure.
So, generally speaking, you can use Azure AD to authenticate your users, and use Microsoft Graph to manage your users in your AD tenant.
For integrating Azure AD in node.js application via passportjs, besides the document on the Azure site https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/documentation/articles/active-directory-devquickstarts-webapi-nodejs/ provided by #Aravind. You also can refer to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/samples/active-directory-node-webapp-openidconnect/ for the code sample on Azure, or leverage passport-azure-ad-oauth2 strategy.
For manage your users in your AD tenant, you can refer to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/samples/active-directory-node-graphapi-oauth2-0-access/ for the code sample on Azure,
Any further concern, please feel free to let me know.
Microsoft allows use of the Authentication command in Azure SQL to connect to the database using an Azure AD account.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql-database-aad-authentication/
Under heading 7.1. Connecting using integrated (Windows) authentication
How can I use this on an Azure App Service?
Note: I am specifically trying NOT to include the password as the next heading shows. I specifically want integrated.
If my understanding of the documentation is correct, you can achieve this yourself using Token Based authentication. It shouldn't require anything special from Azure App Service. See here for details and sample code:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlsecurity/2016/02/09/token-based-authentication-support-for-azure-sql-db-using-azure-ad-auth/
The new token-based authentication method allows middle-tier services to obtain a token from Azure AD and use it to connect to Azure SQL Database.
Azure App Service machines are not part of your domain, so this isn't going to work. This was designed to let domain joined clients connect to SQL.
SQL Username/password is the only option left.
Update: see Chris Post about the new token based features