Lab 01 - Manage Azure Active Directory Identities

 

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Lab 01 - Manage Azure Active Directory Identities

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Lab scenario

In order to allow easyuser users to authenticate by using Azure AD, you have been tasked with provisioning users and group accounts. Membership of the groups should be updated automatically based on the user job titles. You also need to create a test Azure AD tenant with a test user account and grant that account limited permissions to resources in the easyuser Azure subscription.

Objectives

In this lab, you will:

• Task 1: Create and configure Azure AD users
• Task 2: Create Azure AD groups with assigned and dynamic membership
• Task 3: Create an Azure Active Directory (AD) tenant
• Task 4: Manage Azure AD guest users

Estimated timing: 30 minutes

Instructions

Exercise 1

Task 1: Create and configure Azure AD users

In this task, you will create and configure Azure AD users.

1. In the Azure portal, search for and select Azure Active Directory.
2. On the Azure Active Directory blade, scroll down to the Manage section, click User settings, and review available configuration options.
3. On the Azure Active Directory blade, in the Manage section, click Users, and then click your user account to display its Profile settings.
4. Click edit, in the Settings section, set Usage location to United States and save the change.

Note: This is necessary in order to assign an Azure AD Premium P2 license to your user account later in this lab.

5. Navigate back to the Users - All users blade, and then click + New user.
6. Create a new user with the following settings (leave others with their defaults):

Setting	Value
User name	Easyuser1
Name	Easyuser1
Let me create the password	Enabled
Initial password	Easyadmin@123
Usage location	United States
Job title	Cloud Administrator
Department	IT

7. Note: Copy to clipboard the full User Principal Name (user name plus domain). You will need it later in this task.
8. In the list of users, click the newly created user account to display its blade.
9. Review the options available in the Manage section and note that you can identify the Azure AD roles assigned to the user account as well as the user account's permissions to Azure resources.
10. In the Manage section, click Assigned roles, then click + Addassignment button and assign the User administrator role to Easyuser1.

Note: You also have the option of assigning Azure AD roles when provisioning a new user.

11. Open an InPrivate browser window and sign in to the Azure portal using the newly created user account. When prompted to update the password, change the password for the user.

Note: Rather than typing the user name (including the domain name), you can paste the content of Clipboard.

12. In the InPrivate browser window, in the Azure portal, search for and select Azure Active Directory.

Note: While this user account can access the Azure Active Directory tenant, it does not have any access to Azure resources. This is expected, since such access would need to be granted explicitly by using Azure Role-Based Access Control.

13. In the InPrivate browser window, on the Azure AD blade, scroll down to the Manage section, click User settings, and note that you do not have permissions to modify any configuration options.
14. In the InPrivate browser window, on the Azure AD blade, in the Manage section, click Users, and then click + New user.
15. Create a new user with the following settings (leave others with their defaults):

Setting	Value
User name	Easyuser2
Name	Easyuser2
Let me create the password	Enabled
Initial password	Easyadmin@123
Usage location	United States
Job title	System Administrator
Department	IT

16. Sign out as the Easyuser user from the Azure portal and close the InPrivate browser window.

Task 2: Create Azure AD groups with assigned and dynamic membership

In this task, you will create Azure Active Directory groups with assigned and dynamic membership.

1. Back in the Azure portal where you are signed in with your user account, navigate back to the Overview blade of the Azure AD tenant and, in the Manage section, click Licenses.

Note: Azure AD Premium P1 or P2 licenses are required in order to implement dynamic groups.

2. In the Manage section, click All products.
3. Click + Try/Buy and activate the free trial of Azure AD Premium P2.
4. Refresh the browser window to verify that the activation was successful.
5. From the Licenses - All products blade, select the Azure Active Directory Premium P2 entry, and assign all license options of Azure AD Premium P2 to your user account and the two newly created user accounts.
6. In the Azure portal, navigate back to the Azure AD tenant blade and click Groups.
7. Use the + New group button to create a new group with the following settings:

Setting	Value
Group type	Security
Group name	IT Cloud Administrators
Group description	EASY IT cloud administrators
Membership type	Dynamic User

8. Note: If the Membership type drop-down list is grayed out, refresh the browser page.
9. Click Add dynamic query.
10. On the Configure Rules tab of the Dynamic membership rules blade, create a new rule with the following settings:

Setting	Value
Property	jobTitle
Operator	Equals
Value	Cloud Administrator

11. Save the rule and, back on the New Group blade, click Create.
12. Back on the Groups - All groups blade of the Azure AD tenant, click the + New group button and create a new group with the following settings:

Setting	Value
Group type	Security
Group name	IT System Administrators
Group description	EASY IT system administrators
Membership type	Dynamic User

13. Click Add dynamic query.
14. On the Configure Rules tab of the Dynamic membership rules blade, create a new rule with the following settings:

Setting	Value
Property	jobTitle
Operator	Equals
Value	System Administrator

15. Save the rule and, back on the New Group blade, click Create.
16. Back on the Groups - All groups blade of the Azure AD tenant, click the + New group button, and create a new group with the following settings:

Setting	Value
Group type	Security
Group name	IT Lab Administrators
Group description	EASY IT Lab administrators
Membership type	Assigned

17. Click No members selected.
18. From the Add members blade, search and select the IT Cloud Administrators and IT System Administrators groups and, back on the New Group blade, click Create.
19. Back on the Groups - All groups blade, click the entry representing the IT Cloud Administrators group and, on then display its Members blade. Verify that the Easyuser1 appears in the list of group members.
20. Navigate back to the Groups - All groups blade, click the entry representing the IT System Administrators group and, on then display its Members blade. Verify that the Easyuser2 appears in the list of group members.

Note: You might experience delays with updates of the dynamic membership groups. To expedite the update, navigate to the group blade, display its Dynamic membership rules blade, Edit the rule listed in the Rule syntax textbox by adding a whitespace at the end, and Save the change.

Task 3: Create an Azure Active Directory (AD) tenant

In this task, you will create a new Azure AD tenant.

1. In the Azure portal, search for and select Azure Active Directory.
2. Click + Create a tenant and specify the following setting:

Setting	Value
Directory type	Azure Active Directory
Organization name	EASY Lab
Initial domain name	any valid DNS name consisting of lower-case letters and digits and starting with a letter
Country/Region	United States

3. Note: The green check mark in the Initial domain name text box will indicate that the domain name you typed in is valid and unique.
4. Click Review + create and then click Create.
5. Display the blade of the newly created Azure AD tenant by using the Click here to navigate to your new directory:easyuser Lab link or the Directory + Subscription button (directly to the right of the Cloud Shell button) in the Azure portal toolbar.

 

 

Task 4: Manage Azure AD guest users.

In this task, you will create Azure AD guest users and grant them access to resources in an Azure subscription.

1. In the Azure portal displaying thee asyuser Lab Azure AD tenant, in the Manage section, click Users, and then click + New user.
2. Create a new user with the following settings (leave others with their defaults):

Setting	Value
User name	az104-01b-aaduser1
Name	az104-01b-aaduser1
Let me create the password	enabled
Initial password	Easyadmin@123
Job title	System Administrator
Department	IT

3. Note: Copy to clipboard the full User Principal Name (user name plus domain). You will need it later in this task.
4. Switch back to your default Azure AD tenant by using the Directory + Subscription button (directly to the right of the Cloud Shell button) in the Azure portal toolbar.
5. Navigate back to the Users - All users blade, and then click + New guest user.
6. Create a new guest user with the following settings (leave others with their defaults):

Setting	Value
Name	az104-01b-aaduser1
Email address	paste the value you copied into Clipboard earlier in this task
Usage location	United States
Job title	Lab Administrator
Department	IT

7. Click Invite.
8. Back on the Users - All users blade, click the entry representing the newly created guest user account.
9. On the az104-01b-aaduser1 - Profile blade, click Groups.
10. Click + Add membership and add the guest user account to the IT Lab Administrators group.

Clean up resources

Note: Remember to remove any newly created Azure resources that you no longer use. Removing unused resources ensures you will not incur unexpected costs. While, in this case, there are no additional charges associated with Azure Active Directory tenants and their objects, you might want to consider removing the user accounts, the group accounts, and the Azure Active Directory tenant you created in this lab.

1. In the Azure portal, navigate to the Users - All users blade, click the entry representing the az104-01b-aaduser1 guest user account, on the az104-01b-aaduser1 - Profile blade click Delete, and, when prompted to confirm, click OK.
2. Repeat the same sequence of steps to delete the remaining user accounts you created in this lab.
3. Navigate to the Groups - All groups blade, select the groups you created in this lab, click Delete, and, when prompted to confirm, click OK.
4. Navigate to the Azure Active Directory Premium P2 - Licensed users blade, select the user accounts to which you assigned licenses in this lab, click Remove license, and, when prompted to confirm, click OK.
5. In the Azure portal, display the blade of theeasyuser Lab Azure AD tenant by using the Directory + Subscription button (directly to the right of the Cloud Shell button) in the Azure portal toolbar.
6. Navigate to the Users - All users blade, click the entry representing the az104-01b-aaduser1 user account, on the az104-01b-aaduser1 - Profile blade click Delete, and, when prompted to confirm, click OK.
7. Navigate to theeasyuser Lab - Overview blade of theeasyuser Lab Azure AD tenant, click Delete directory, on the Delete directory 'EASY Lab' blade, click the Get permission to delete Azure resources link, on the Properties blade of Azure Active Directory, set Access management for Azure resources to Yes and click Save.
8. Sign out from the Azure portal and sign in back.
9. Navigate back to the Delete directory 'EASY Lab' blade and click Delete.

Review

In this lab, you have:

• Created and configured Azure AD users
• Created Azure AD groups with assigned and dynamic membership
• Created an Azure Active Directory (AD) tenant
• Managed Azure AD guest users