I am currently porting a Desktop application to Google Cloud SQL and need to allow users to login using Windows Active Directory authentication. I cannot seem to join the SQL instance to the domain because SQL instances dont allow system access. Im not sure of any other way to let a sql instance trust a domain.
In short- How can I set up a GCP Cloud SQL instance to trust an Active Directory Domain without system access to the SQL instance?
Google Cloud SQL for SQL Server does not support domain joins to your Active Directory instance.
At this time, instance-level database access is via SQL Server Authentication (username, password).
Google Cloud SQL for SQL Server now supports Active Directory Authentication as a preview feature. Here's the announcement blog post: Cloud SQL for SQL Server—now with Active Directory authentication
A walkthrough of setting up a GCP Cloud SQL instance to trust an Active Directory Domain is covered in this blog post:
Create a SQL Server instance integrated with Active Directory using Google Cloud SQL
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I am required to migrate an on-prem ASP.Net web application with its SQL Server 2019 backend to Azure.
The Web application initial migration must be IaaS (Windows VMs running IIS).
The SQL 2019 has to be Azure SQL PaaS (Not Azure SQL Managed instance).
The existing on-prem Web application has several virtual directories, and each application in a virtual directory, is in a separate IIS app pool.
Each app pool is run under the context of a different domain service account.
Connection to the SQL databases is via integrated security.
In the current on-prem solution, the domain service accounts are added as logins to the SQL Server and each has permissions to one or more of the databases (Execute / Connect permissions; addition to datareader role etc).
I believe there will have a domain join to Azure AD, so the on-prem AD service accounts will be accessible in azure (as far as I can understand).
SQL Azure does not support CREATE LOGIN [MYDOMAIN\MYSVCACCOUNT] FROM WINDOWS;
Is there a way I can setup the existing on-prem domain accounts with the access, permissions and roles in the SQL PaaS solution, to mirror the current on-prem setup?
Alternatively, could someone could help me identify resources for best practice for the architecture described.
Thank you
I found a a few good posts that assisted me to understand all available options:
https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/5242/adding-users-to-azure-sql-databases/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/azure-sql/database/logins-create-manage
If I use one of the methods to migrate a SQL server instance with several databases into a Azure Managed Instance, would the procedure also replicate any login accounts with access rights?
Particular interested in knowing how this handles Active Directory accounts
From what I know, it doesn't and you cannot use Windows Authentication but only SQL Server Authentication or Azure AD. I've migrated several times a local database of my local SQL Server instance to Azure and I've done it using Export Data-Tier to .bacpac (this is the extension of the DB in Azure) and then deploying it (both actions from SSMS):
However, please be aware that you have to drop any users that use for authentication Windows Authentication because you'll get an error at the moment of deploying it since it cannot inherit your server's active directory settings. Then, you can define your own AD in Azure and use it.
Managed instance is a new deployment option of Azure SQL Database, providing near 100% compatibility with the latest SQL Server on-premises (Enterprise Edition) Database Engine.
The migration only support replicate the login.
You could get this from this document: Tutorial: Migrate SQL Server to an Azure SQL Database managed instance offline using DMS:
By default, Azure Database Migration Service only supports migrating SQL logins. To enable support for migrating Windows logins, see the Prerequisites section of this tutorial.
That means you must re-create all the users and grant it access right(database roles) manually.
Hope this helps.
I have an application written in VB, which used to connect with a Microsoft SQL Server, which is placed on a VM in the domain, using Windows Authentication(Local Domain).
But, I have moved my DB to a SQL Server which is placed on an Azure VM.
My problem is that i don't know how i can use Windows Authentication(or somehow to "ask" the Active Directory about the user who tries to connect).
I have seen the modes of SQL Server:
Active Directory - Password
Active Directory - Integrated
but i can't understand how i can use them. Should i have to do trust relation between 2 domain(Local, Azure)?
Can someone help?
I have moved my DB to a SQL Server which is placed on an Azure VM.
SQL on an Azure VM is the same product you might run on-premises, and supports SQL Auth and Windows Integrated Auth. The Azure Active Directory authentication methods supported by Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse are not applicable to SQL Server running in an Azure VM. See:
Azure Active Directory authentication is a mechanism of connecting to
Azure SQL Database and SQL Data Warehouse by using identities in Azure
Active Directory (Azure AD).
See Use Azure Active Directory Authentication for authentication with SQL Database, Managed Instance, or SQL Data Warehouse
For SQL Server running in an Azure VM you use either SQL Authentication or Windows Authenticationl, as outlined here Authentication in SQL Server
You can use Windows Auth in your VM with either local accounts (created on the VM), or you can deploy a Domain Controller on a separate VM into your VMs VNET and use identities from the Domain. The Domain Controller you deploy into your Azure VNET can be an isolated Domain, or it can be a replica for your on-premises domain. If you want to deploy a replica of your on-premises domain into an Azure VNET you also will need to use a site-to-site VPN or ExpressRoute, as explained here Guidelines for Deploying Windows Server Active Directory on Azure Virtual Machines
The SQL Server (version 2016) is located in the local Virtual Machine(Windows Server 2012 R2) and I need to provide authentication for the users in the Azure Active Directory. As I am new to this I am not even sure whether it is possible or not. Can anybody guide me.
No, it is impossible. Please refer to this official document.
Connecting to SQL Server running on an Azure VM is not supported using
an Azure Active Directory account. Use a domain Active Directory
account instead.
It means if your local sql server could not use Azure Active Directory Authentication. You could use local domain Active Directory users.
If you use Azure SQL Database and SQL Data Warehouse, you could use Azure Active Directory authentication. Please refer to this link.
I need to connect my web app on Azure to our on site SQL Server instance via Windows authentication (not via SQL Server account authentication). Active Directory is already integrated with the on-site AD and therefore all of the users are available there.
My question is, is it possible to hook up an azure web app to an on-site SQL Server via Windows authentication.
is it possible to hook up an azure web app to an on-site SQL Server via Windows authentication.
Base on my option, it maybe that we couldn’t do that. As we have been limited to do that operation for azure WebApp. There is also another SO thread mentioned that.
If we want to connect to on premise SQL Server, we can use hybrid connections to access on-premises SQL server database in Azure WebApp, more info please refer to the document.
If we want to authenticate the WebApp with local Active Directory, and we have an on-premises secure token service (STS) like Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), we could use that to federate authentication for our Azure WebApp. More info please refer to the document.
Hybrid connections at this time does not support AD accounts due to
because you cannot domain join an App Service worker