I'm quite new to the Azure AD. So I will be grateful for any hint.
I need to enable members of a given domain (of a given Active Directory) to log in to Azure SQL Server using Azure Active Directory - Integrated Authentication.
So far I've logged into Windows and connected it to Azure Acticve Directory in Windows Setting.
Looking through the documentation, I understand that I need to select one of the authentication methods proposed by Microsoft within Azure Active Directory. The easiest seems to be Password hash synchronization. So I would like to pick this one (But if others are simpliest I am open to change that choice)
What is the easiest way to synchronise this? Can I avoid having to create a Windows Server VM and install Azure AD Connect there?
The current configuration of AD Connect on Azure Portal looks as follows:
To mention it again, the only service I care about is logging in via Azure Active Directory
I apologise if the whole question has been wrongly structured, but it is simply based on what I have found on the forums and in the documentation.
Thanks in advance for any tips
[for example: https://youtu.be/PyeAC85Gm7w?t=565, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/authentication-aad-configure?tabs=azure-powershell#using-an-azure-ad-identity-to-connect-using-ssms-or-ssdt, https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sql-blog/azure-ad-pass-through-and-password-hash-authentication-support/ba-p/1269735]
You don't need Azure AD Connect or password hash sync unless you have an on-premise Windows Server AD that you want to sync to Azure AD. Should note that AD is not the same as Azure AD. You don't need Windows Server AD with Azure SQL, just Azure AD. To grant a certain security group access to the server, you can run CREATE USER [group-name-here] FROM EXTERNAL PROVIDER; in the Azure SQL DB. Then you can use standard SQL stuff to grant that "user" access to the DB/tables.
Users should then use Azure Active Directory - Universal with MFA as the authentication method in SQL Server Management Studio.
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I've got an Azure App Service that needs access to a classic SQL Server (non-Azure SQL, not SQL Managed Instance) and I'd prefer to do this via System Managed Identity. This is enabled on the App Service and a corresponding Enterprise Application is created on Azure AD.
The SQL Server is also connected to this Azure AD and User accounts on the AD already have access to the database. However I can't find how to create a login for the Enterprise Application. If this was an Azure SQL database I could do it with CREATE LOGIN [AZUREAD\app] FROM EXTERNAL PROVIDER but this does not work on a classic SQL Server, only on Azure SQL/MI.
A solution would be to use SQL accounts and reference the login/password in the connection strings, but as mentioned I'd much rather use Azure AD for authentication.
To answer my own question: SQL Server 2022 includes Azure AD authentication Link
Using integrated security or an access token it will be possible to authenticate with an App Registration.
This is currently in preview with no RTM date specified.
Users in azure active directory has source of authority option. It contains either azure active directory or Windows Server AD. So users which has source of authority Windows Server AD they are not updating their fields. Please clear my doubt.
No, you cannot update attributes for on premise users synced using azure ad connect in azure ad. You need to edit attributes in the local ad.
I have a problem when connecting to an Azure SQL Database using SSMS under this scenario:
Have a work laptop connected to work domain via VPN
The database is in a different Azure tenant (tenant B) to my work Azure tenant
(tenant A).
My work account is set up via AAD in the work Azure tenant (A)
and is a guest account in other tenant (B)
Have the latest version of SSMS
Granted user access to the Azure SQL database
I connect via SSMS using the Azure Active Directory - Universal
with MFA option
Note all default options are set and have also tried setting the database
I know the database access has been correctly set up as I have successfully been able to connect in the above scenario when I use Azure Data Studio instead of SSMS, but only because I have the option to change "Azure AD tenant" property from "Tenant A" to "Default Directory".
I have been able to connect OK when using SSMS with my personal computer using the same account / method, except it is not using a work account and is not connected to the work domain.
Seems like my issue is that I cannot change the "Azure AD tenant" property in SSMS and it is using the tenant associated with my account. I have also tested with a number of different people and they have the same issue. I have also set the default Azure directory to tenant B in the Azure portal.
Does anyone have any suggestion how I can get this to work in SSMS?
Azure Data Studio connection
Thanks Tony
OK, I am answering my own question.
I have a work-around which involves:
Create a connection in Azure Data Studio and setting the Azure AD Tenant to "default directory"
In SSMS, connect to the Database using the Azure Data Studio connection in the Registered Servers pane
Not ideal, but it works.
we have been using office 365 E3 for the past number of years. we would like to configure a windows 2019 essentials server locally for file storage and a few shared applications (ie quickbooks multi-user).
is there a process to pull the user information from azure active directory to the local server? any advice is greatly appreciated.
thank you!!
If my understanding is correct, you really want is to be able to grant admin rights to your Azure AD users and allow them to login to the server with their regular Azure AD credentials.
If yes, then most optimum way of doing is to have on prem AD and have you user synced up from Azure AD to local AD. Azure AD Connect comes pretty handy in this scenario.
You can also take a look at Azure AD DS, Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD DS) provides managed domain services such as domain join, group policy, lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP), and Kerberos / NTLM authentication that is fully compatible with Windows Server Active Directory. You use these domain services without the need to deploy, manage, and patch domain controllers in the cloud. Azure AD DS integrates with your existing Azure AD tenant, which makes it possible for users to sign in using their existing credentials.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-domain-services/overview
Check this link as well for additional reference:
https://serverfault.com/questions/808047/how-to-manage-on-premise-servers-using-azure-ad-credentials
Hope it helps.
We currently have around 400 client databases hosted on a SQL Server in Azure. When initially setup, no Active Directory admin user was set, only a server admin and this server admin is used at the moment for all connection strings. If I were to add an Active Directory admin to the server, would this have any effect on the connection of any of the databases using the server admin? In other words, would the server admin still work fine and adding Active Directory admin not disconnect any users currently connected to the SQL server?
No, adding an Azure AD Admin won’t affect any connections using the Server Admin or any other login.
However, the recommended way applications should connect to SQL Azure databases is via contained users. Contained users do not get disconnected during failovers (geo-replication) and they travel with the databases (backups, readable copies).
Agree with Alberto Morillo, we should connect to SQL Azure databases via contained users.
More information about contained users, please refer to this link.
By the way, when we setting up the Azure AD admin, the new admin name
(user or group) cannot already be present in the virtual master
database as a SQL Server authentication user. If present, the Azure AD
admin setup will fail; rolling back its creation and indicating that
such an admin (name) already exists. Since such a SQL Server
authentication user is not part of the Azure AD, any effort to connect
to the server using Azure AD authentication fails.
More information about provision an Azure Active Directory adminstrator for your Azure SQL server, please refer to this article.