Is it possible to have multiple profiles for a PIM role within Azure? If not, is this something that is on the roadmap?
Question from customer: "as you know you can customize the roles to specify the window for that privilege, the approvers and so on. Could you have multiple profiles for each role in the future?"
This is possible with the privileged access groups feature. Simply create two groups, apply different policies and make the users eligible for the group (do not assign the group as eligible, since the members are eligible for the group, which would require them to activate twice). Documentation can be found at aka.ms/pag
Thanks Steve, but what I can see it's only for Azure AD roles, right? It's not possible to assign Azure resources.
Thanks again!
When you create a new privileged access group you can only assign Azure AD roles but not Azure resources roles during the creation, that's what I meant... because with that you can modify the properties for that specific role, in terms of time of the privileged mode, who are the approvers, and so on... will it be available in the future?
Do we know when will it be in GA?
Thanks!!
Ignore assigning roles at group creation time. Simply create the role and enable it for role assignment (this part is required if you want to use it with PIM). Once it's created (even with no AAD roles assigned to it) you can enable the group for Privileged access. After enabling the group for privileged access you can assign members as Eligible, and configure assignment and activation settings for the member and/or owner roles. ETA for GA of this feature (privileged access groups) is end of the calendar year.
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I need some help understanding the behavior of AD and the security around it.
In a nutshell I have a requirement to automate just in time elevation to certain privileged groups, where Domain Admins is one of the groups we need to add membership to.
Here is a summary on the way I set things up
I created a new group called DomainAdminJit which is a member of "Domain Admins", I add a service account as a delegate to DomainAdminJit to modify membership where I expect to add users to this group instead of the domain admin group directly, for organization purposes mainly.
This works fine but a few minutes later all permissions are to the service account are being stripped, researching this turms out to be done because the AdminSDHolder is reverting those permissions.
My initial reaction was to add the service account with write properties and write permissions to the AdminSDHolder container, but somehow that doesn't work.
I do see the service account now at the DomainAdminsJit group however I get insufficient rights when attempting to add a user to the DomainAdminsJit using that service account.
What am I missing and how do I ensure that service account is always able to add members to a group that is a member of Domain admins and not have the permissions revert?
Your help would greatly be appreciated
Thank you
You've got this great new feature in Azure AD under Entitlement management: Access Packages.
Packages including groups and what more for specific users and roles.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/governance/entitlement-management-access-package-create
The issue I'm struggling with, is how can I add users by dynamic group without them having to request access first?
I feel like I'm overseeing something, but as it looks now you can only add a Dynamic Group & the users in the group can request access to the AccessPackages.
Has anyone else dealt with this already?
Please check the references and if below can be worked around in your case.
According to Create a new access package in entitlement management - Azure AD | Microsoft Docs.
If you want to bypass access requests and allow administrators to directly assign specific users to this access package. click None (administrator direct assignments only) in request section to create a policy where users need not request for access. For this group selection is not there.Users won't have to request the access package.
But if you need to select specific dynamic group for policy .
You can create a access package with dynamic groups selected .
You can create a policy separately for the users for dynamic group with require approval disabled and requests disabled.
Then while assignment requests are bypassed and approved even if the policy has request approval.
Even if require approval and requests are enabled in first step, you can set a separate policy by setting the by pass approval to yes.
Note :Dynamic group is to be given the owner role for access packages.
Reference: active-directory-entitlement-management-request-policy | (github)
As a Global administrator role, when I add a Guest User to the tenant, the UI allows me to add the invitee to groups.
However, as a Guest Inviter role, it does not allow me to do this.
So, what is the minimum privileged configuration that I need to give my "project manager people" the ability to add guest users and associate them with specific groups?
I'm still trying to determine how they can get that specific groups box in the invite window to appear for normal users, not sure that possible.
However, to answer your question. As long as those PM people are "owners" of those groups in question, they will have the ability to add the guests to those groups.
although its 1-2 extra steps. they would have to go to Groups instead of Users, click on the group they want and click add member. that's basically the only way to limit them to be able to add members to certain groups.
To make it easier to manage, I would create something like a PM Owner Group manage the membership of that group, then add that group to all the other groups you want those set of users to be able to add guests/members to.
But if you absolutely need the little group section as part of the invite window, my fear is it may need more permissions than you should ever give to a PM. However I will update if I find the exact permission.
I need to emit a role's permissions as claims in the JWT.
The aim is to get a certain user's permissions as claims in the JWT for authorization purposes.
The user belongs to a group which is assocciated to a certain role which has certain permissions in the Azure Active Directory.
Clarification:
If I add some items to the appRoles array in the app's manifest, the role names are emitted as role-type claims in the JWT in the following format:
http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2008/06/identity/claims/role: [value property in the appRole item as appears int he manifest appRoles array]
But I couldn't find any way to emit role's permissions' names (or any other property) as claims.
I've been googling and digging in MS docs for days but couldn't find anything. I hope that it's possible.
If it isn't possible, a clumsy workaround may be to represent the permission we need to be emitted as an AAD role, and to represent the role (in the meaning of "a set of permissions") as an AAD special group, and then to associate the groups we wanted to be associated with the role (in an ideal world) to that special "role"-group.
But it's very clumsy as we will actually lose the natural meaning of role which is a set of permissions, and the natural meaning of group which is a set of users and/or groups
Thanks for any help :)
The value property is the custom role name you configured and will be returned in JWT. It's by design.
The permission name won't be returned in the JWT. After you have added an appRole into the Azure AD app, you need to assign users and groups to the role.
You need to add the needed permissions in Azure AD APP and then control the permissions in your code.
We assume you have assigned a custom role in an Azure AD app and added a user to this role.
When a user signs in, a token which includes the role claim will be returned. You can judge the user's role in the code. If it matches a custom appRole, he is allowed to perform an operation. If the user does not match any of the appRoles, he does not have permission to perform any operations.
We need to now how we can check whether an account in AD has permissions to add/remove membership on AD group. AD team will be giving our service account permissions for 1000 groups at one time and we want to know a way to check quickly if we really do have permissions before confirming. Any help would be appreciated!
This is hard to answer except for the fact that when they give you permission you can test adding and removing a test user to a group. But this will all depend on the fact if the groups have all the standard default permissions when created, also the method that the AD team will give you access. Adding you to a built in group that has permission to edit the AD group, or if they are going to create a new group and add that to the AD groups. Sorry to be vague but a lot of variable here.