How to join a system into AzureAD programatically? Can anyone recommend commands or powershell option through which we can join AzureAD
At present there are no PowerShell scripts for joining devices to Azure AD.
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There are lot of ways you can bring your devices to azure ad join directly like users can go through the Azure AD join process either during Windows Out of Box Experience (OOBE)
Similarly bulk enrollment and Autopilot) which provide a richer experience to join devices to Azure AD
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We are looking at moving a number of applications from on prem SQL Servers upto Azure as a Paas offering, what would be the best way to grant the Database team access to these databases? They'll be under one tenant but spread across a couple of subscriptions and multiple resource groups.
Moving forward i'd also like for them to have permissions automatically for any new SQL database added to any resource group within our tenant.
Little bit confused on the best approach?
Thanks in advance
Dave
You need to perform below mentioned tasks to achieve your requirement.
create an Azure Active Directory user
create an Azure Active Directory group and assign the user group
add an Azure Active Directory user/group as an Azure SQL
Administrator
add Azure Active Directory users to Azure SQL Database
Follow this third-party tutorial to implement the same.
Additionally, you can have Database-level role for each user for more safety of the data. Please check this official document from Microsoft.
We currently have an Azure Active Directory tenant, which replicates via AD Connect our on-premises Windows users. We have an on-premises Exchange Server where accounts are my-company.com.
We have another email domain my-company.io for which there are no users yet.
In the immediate future, we want to create a few mailboxes for my-company.io directly in Exchange Online (not on our Exchange Server). These mailboxes will not be attached to Windows domain users.
Later this year, we want to start migrating our my-company.com Exchange mailboxes to Exchange Online, gradually with a hybrid setup.
In this scenario, what does make more sense?
a) Create second tenant in our Azure account, create there any my-company.io AAD users, then add these users to Exchange Online.
b) Add another domain to our existing tenant, create there any my-company.io AAD users, then add these users to Exchange Online.
Our concern is if activating Exchange Online for my-company.io users in the existing tenant, will interfere in any way our future plan to migrate to Exchange Online for my-company.com users.
Both methods should be feasible. The difference is whether the two accounts exist under the same tenant. If you have a reason to let them exist under the same tenant, you should choose the second option. But if you do not require them to exist under the same tenant, creating a new tenant for my-company.io is recommended, because this will reduce the configuration when migrating to Exchange Online for my-company.com users.
Your concern is not superfluous, but they are not unsolvable. If you choose the second option, then you need to carefully design what your hybrid deployment environment is like. For example, there are two types of users, one is a hybrid deployment user, and the other is a cloud-only user. You can refer to this document to choose the configuration you need.
In short, from the perspective of easy configuration and management of different types of users, the first solution is better, while the second solution does not require you to create new tenants and requires you to pay more attention to configuring hybrid deployments.
Currently my team and I have a client that is using Power BI Premium.
We need to have Row Level Security enabled for both internal and external users.
We gave a recommendation to have Azure AD groups handle user management, but the client does not want to have all of there internal and external users be shown in their Azure AD. They believe it will be unmanageable for them. They want us to recommend another way to be able to manage internal users in Azure AD and have all external users managed in Azure AD, but completely separated from internal users, or by some other user management service that Azure provides. All the while, remaining in the same tenant since it seems the Power Bi Premium license can only be associated to one tenant and being able to have Row Level Security implemented for both internal and external users.
Is this possible? If so, how can we do it?
Thank you all for your time and help.
as per microsoft, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-admin-azure-ad-b2b
as far as I'm aware, the ideal way to share power bi with external users like that is this is to through azure b2b. which means you will have them as a guest user in your azure tenant. the second they are a guest in your tenant, that means they are on the list in your azure ad Users. which has advantages, their activity is trackable, reportable etc.
Our organizations has 10s of thousands of user accounts in our azure ad tenant, it doesn't make it any less manageable. just use the search bar or the filters, I'm not sure what the issue would be that makes it unmanageable.
if the requirement is secured power bi sharing,
you're better off trying to understand why your client thinks its unmanageable and help relieve their fears.
the only other option that I can see is, if you don't want to see external users, then you could use power BI embedded to embed power bi reports in a different web app that you create, and allow access to the webapp. but then you will have to deal with all the user level management stuff in code.
here's an article: https://medium.com/bi-helper/power-bi-embedded-report-distribution-to-external-users-1cf46fe1303b
hope this helps a bit.
I have an online instance of Dynamics 365 v. 9.0 with its basic OOB configuration. I need to synchronize a set of attributes from my local Active Directory users to Dynamics 365 system users entity. For this purpose, there aren't any logon or identity requirements between AD and CRM. The only need is to sync specific attributes like position of the user in the organization hierarchy.
Can I accomplish that without developing code?
You'll need an app that runs from your local network, since it will probably be difficult to configure any sort of cloud-based solution like Microsoft Flow or Zapier to talk to your local AD.
I'd recommend using Data Sync Studio from Simego (http://www.simego.com) for a code-less solution. It is a Windows program that would run from your local desktop or Windows server. It can connect to AD and Dynamics Online.
If this is a one-time migration, the trial version would probably work for you. If it is an ongoing synchronization, they have a server product that will run your sync jobs on a schedule.
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Simego in any way - I just like their product for things like this. :)
I'm evaluating Dynamics CRM 2011.
I would like to point the CRM instance to a different active directory server. Is this possible without a complete re-install?
This is a test CRM instance and only has a couple of active accounts in there right now but it was setup pointing to our corporate AD server and this is proving to be a barrier to testing with multiple different accounts.
Setting up trust from live corporate AD to the test AD is not really an option either.
Create a case to support.
We did a similar change, and they provided us with tools to mass update the SQL table.
I don't think it's possible out of the box. It has some strict requirements with once it's setup. Things like the org names are pretty much locked in.
If you install CRM on a server in a different AD you should be able to import the database and during the process it will ask you to map existing users in CRM to AD accounts.