I would like create a new Active Directory in Azure with powershell.
Do you know the cmdlet to do this ?
Thank you !
You cannot create Windows Azure Active Directory tenant using PowerShell.
First of all, you do not create Azure Active Directory. It is already created and managed by Microsoft. What you create is a tenant within Azure Active Directory. And you cannot just create it. Especially using just some API.
Windows Azure AD tenant is being created when someone creates an Office365 Subscription, or Microsoft Intune Subscription, or Windows Azure Subscription and so on.
Read carefully through the entire article here, in order to understand what is Windows Azure AD Tenant, how it is created and where it is used.
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I'm trying to follow this tutorial on developing with Microsofts Graph Data Connect. The tutorial states:
The Azure subscription must be in the same tenant as the Microsoft 365 tenant. Microsoft Graph Data Connect will only export data to an Azure subscription in the same tenant, not across tenants.
Your Microsoft 365 and Azure tenants must be in the same Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenancy.
I already have an Azure account with an Azure for Students subscription. I signed up to the Microsoft 365 Developer Program and created a new sandbox. This creates a totally new tenant with a corresponding admin#[MYTENANT].onmicrosoft.com account.
The 365 sandbox has an Azure Directory, but no subscription or ability to create new services. The admin account cannot be used to sign up for a new free subscription, attempting to create an Azure free account results in a "Your current account type is not supported" message.
Is there a way to link these two accounts together so I can create an app in Azure that uses Graph Data Connect to access the dummy data in the 365 Sandbox?
You might be able to change your azure subscription to a new directory. (It might be blocked by policy however)
You'll need a user who exists in both directories, and who is an owner on the subscription. In the portal, click the "Change Directory" button on the ribbon and follow the prompts. Note, the directory change will delete all RBAC role assignments and possible some other configurations, but if this is a learning subscription there's probably not a lot that can't be recreated.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devtest/offer/how-to-change-directory-tenants-visual-studio-azure
Is it possible to dynamically create an Azure Active Directory over the Azure shell or from C#?
The only documentation I was able to find is this https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/ad?view=azure-cli-latest describing some commands but it does not explain how to create a new tenant or Azure AD B2C.
We are builing an application for a lot of client organization. Each organization would need an own active directory and database to seperate them from each other logically and securly. That's why we want to dynamically create active directories. We don't want the client to wait and we don't want to manually create everything for each one.
Thank you for your help!
It is not possible to create a Azure Active Directory using Azure Shell or C#. A tenant represents an organization in Azure Active Directory.
Azure AD service instance that an organization receives and owns when it signs up for a Microsoft cloud service such as Azure, Microsoft Intune, or Microsoft 365
I am trying to get a Database configured to use Integrated Auth. In other words, I have an App Service, and I want it to use Integrated Auth so that I don't have to use Sql Server username/password in a connection string.
So I went to my existing Azure Account and created an Azure Active Directory.
The Active Directory was created, and I then switched to this Directory. However, all of the resources of my usual Azure account are not to be found. It is as if I had created a brand new Azure account.
If I try to create a resource, it tells me that I have no subscription, and that I need to create one. So I created one, but it ended up getting linked to my original account, not the new Active Directory Account.
I tried again to add a subscription, but it asks me to sign in, but I don't understand how I am supposed to sign in to the new AD account.
I am not understanding what is going on here. Is an Azure Active Directory a new and different account than my original?
How do I "sign in" to the new active directory so I can add a subscription?
An Azure subscription is always linked to an Azure AD tenant (directory).
The hierarchy looks like this:
Your default Azure AD
Subscription
SQL DB
The new Azure AD you created
So you can see the SQL DB is looking at the Azure AD you already had.
Because that's the one linked to the sub where the DB is.
Make sure you are looking at the directory where your DB is, you should be able to go to "Azure Active Directory" from the service list.
"Integrated auth" usually means AD authentication, so I want to clarify that Azure SQL does not support that.
Neither does App Service.
What they do support is Azure AD authentication, which is documented here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-aad-authentication.
Mostly I recommend enabling a Managed Identity on the App Service, granting it access to the database, and then using that from within the app to connect.
Following on from this question, I don't understand what the difference between an Azure Tenant, Azure Directory and Azure Active Directory.
When I log in to Azure and click my profile it lets me Switch Directory.
In my case I can switch to my company directory and also to the directory of another company where I have guest credits.
Does Directory in this context mean the same as Azure Active Directory?
The documentation says a tenant is:
Azure tenant: A dedicated and trusted instance of Azure AD that's
automatically created when your organization signs up for a Microsoft
cloud service subscription, such as Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Intune,
or Office 365. An Azure tenant represents a single organization.
So is Tenant the same as Directory in this case as well?
Yes, in this case the tenant is the same as an Azure AD. In the Azure portal you are changing Azure Active Directories when you use the Switch Directory feature. You can currently only be in the context of a single directory at a time; however, as the previous question you pointed to indicates, multiple subscriptions can be tied to a tenant/directory. So when you are in the context of a directory you'll see all the subscriptions under that tenant to which you have access to one or more resources based on security.
To be fair, I use Azure AD Tenant/Azure AD Directory interchangeably. The Portal UI calls them directories; however, the properties on resources, REST APIs, CLI commands, etc. all refer to it as a tenant.
Directory == Tenant.
When you utilize azure services, the TenantId will be requested. The TenantId is non other than the DirectoryId which can be found in the Properties tab within Azure Active Directory.
Furthermore, as answered in the link you provided:
"Subscriptions are tied to tenants. so 1 tenant can have many subscriptions, but not vice versa."
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management service, which helps your employees sign in and access resources
Tenant is a digital representation of the organization.
Azure Active Directory creating a directory objects in the form of tenant name. Azure Active Directory and tenants are interrelated.
In total, the Azure AD Tenant provides identity and access management (IAM) capabilities to applications and resources.
Link : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/education/deploy/intro-azure-active-directory#what-is-an-azure-ad-tenant
In my company, we are using Office365 for our emails.
In addition to this, we are using Windows Azure Active Directory to secure some applications.
Now I've been asked to create some kind of link between our users in Office 365 and Windows Azure Active Directory.
The point would be to have some admin applications deployed and secured with WAAD but for which the users are the ones from Office365.
I've found lots of documentation on the web on how to sync directories but not really anything stating clearly that this is possible.
I'd like to insist on the fact that it is our own application that we'd like to secure like this.
Thanks
(Edit 2018-03-23: This answer was updated to reflect changes in the new Azure portal.)
The underlying directory for Office 365 is Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). This means that if you have an Office 365 account, you already have a directory -or "tenant"- in Azure AD.
In your case, I think what you want to do is move from securing your application with a different Azure AD tenant (under a different domain), to securing your applications with the tenant you got when you started using Office 365. The key here is to be able to get access to your Office 365 tenant from the Azure portal.
All you need to do is sign in to the Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) with you Office 365 account (which, remember, is an Azure AD account), and head over to the "Azure Active Directory" blade. (Note: You do not need an Azure subscription in order to manage your Azure AD tenant in the Azure portal.)
Now you can go about adding and configuring apps to the Office 365 tenant so that you can use that tenant to secure your apps.
Extra: Since you've already started doing things with another Azure subscription (presumably your Microsoft Account, MSA --formerly LiveID--), you might be interested in transferring that Azure subscription to be owned by an account in your primary Azure AD tenant: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/billing/billing-subscription-transfer
If the aim is to make the Office 365 directory available inside the Azure portal, this currently works:
In the Azure portal, under Active Directory, click the New button, then Directory, then Custom Create. In the Directory pull-down, select 'Use existing directory' and follow the instructions to sign out and sign in using your Office 365 admin user. This will make your Office 365 directory available inside your Azure portal (in addition to any other Azure directories you have access to.)
When you setup your Azure Subcription did you use the same account you used when you setup your Office 365 Subscription? If so you should be able to see an existing WAAD instance when you log into Azure that has your #*.onmicrosoft.com domain registered against it. If you don't see that you may be able to add the domain to Azure subscription assuming of you are the domain admin. See here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bspann/archive/2013/10/20/adding-existing-o365-directory-to-azure-msdn-subscription.aspx
For the sake of completion, I hope the OP would come back and accept the answer provided by Philippe.
I found this that was quite helpful: http://blogs.technet.com/b/ad/archive/2013/04/29/using-a-existing-windows-azure-ad-tenant-with-windows-azure.aspx