We are looking to sync a multi-value attribute from on-prem AD to Azure AD. I read an article in which it's mentioned, its not yet supported but i would like to confirm from the experts.
My questions are:
1) Do multi-valued attributes synch from on premises AD to Azure AD is supported?
2) In Azure AD Connect, in Directory Extensions, how do I know from the available attributes if the attribute is Single or Multi-Value?
Thanks in advance
1) AD Connect supports synchronizing multi-valued attributes to AAD.
However, AAD doesn't support multi-valued attributes synchronized from on premises AD.
See this feedback, Azure AD Team replied below:
We are investigating what it would take to add support for multi-value attributes in Dynamic Groups to enable this and related scenarios.
2) Looks we could not check if the attribute is Single or Multi-Value in the Directory Extensions, we could just know which are valid candidates.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/hybrid/how-to-connect-sync-feature-directory-extensions#customize-which-attributes-to-synchronize-with-azure-ad
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We're trying to set up a central platform to assign groups to users coming from several organizations.
Each organization has its own identity provider, which we require supports SAML. Using SAML, we authenticate these users onto our platform in an isolated environment, i.e. users from one org should not be able to see users from another.
We were hoping to use Azure AD for this task and its Administrative Unit feature. Administrative Units proved ineffective though, as they don't allow this segregation. Either a users sees all users/groups in the AD, or none at all.
We also cannot use multiple Azure tenants, since we need to map these users onto AWS SSO, which only supports one tenant.
Are you aware of another identity service which allows SAML federated identity and org isolation?
• You can surely configure federated identity segregation and isolation using SAML with Azure AD by leveraging its various features like User based access control (RBAC or Roles Based Access Control) with authentication and identity separation, security assurances for processes and practices using Security Development Lifecycle, Identity based isolation, zero trust architecture, Azure Active Directory, Data encryption, key vault, and many others. The concept for user-based access control can be illustrated through the diagram below. Also, multi-tenancy in the public cloud improves efficiency by multiplexing resources among disparate customers at low cost; however, this approach introduces the perceived risk associated with resource sharing. Azure addresses this risk by providing a trustworthy foundation for isolated cloud services using a multi-layered approach depicted in figure below: -
• Also, do take into consideration that tenant isolation in Azure AD involves two primary elements: -
a) Preventing data leakage and access across tenants, which means that data belonging to Tenant A can't in any way be obtained by users in Tenant B without explicit authorization by Tenant A.
b) Resource access isolation across tenants, which means that operations performed by Tenant A can't in any way impact access to resources for Tenant B.
Access via Azure AD requires user authentication through a Security Token Service (STS). The authorization system uses information on the user’s existence and enabled state through the Directory Services API and Azure RBAC to determine whether the requested access to the target Azure AD instance is authorized for the user in the session. From the below figure, you can illustrate that Aside from token-based authentication that is tied directly to the user, Azure AD further supports logical isolation in Azure through: -
a) Azure AD instances are discrete containers and there's no relationship between them.
b) Azure AD data is stored in partitions and each partition has a pre-determined set of replicas that are considered the preferred primary replicas. Use of replicas provides high availability of Azure AD services to support identity separation and logical isolation.
c) Access isn't permitted across Azure AD instances unless the Azure AD instance administrator grants it through federation or provisioning of user accounts from other Azure AD instances.
d) Physical access to servers that comprise the Azure AD service and direct access to Azure AD’s back-end systems is restricted to properly authorized Microsoft operational roles using the Just-In-Time (JIT) privileged access management system.
e) Azure AD users have no access to physical assets or locations, and therefore it isn't possible for them to bypass the logical Azure RBAC policy checks.
For more information regarding the above, kindly refer to the documentation link below: -
https://aka.ms/AADDataWhitePaper
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/overview
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.
I have done data masking and row level security based on the role of the user in snowflake. Now we are Integrating Tableau and Looker with snowflake using service account for these tools. Now since it is going to be a service account, which all the user will have access to. I am wondering how can we implement the masking and row level security.
Please note the access to snowflake is using SSO which is done by OKTA.
I am not very familiar with Tableau or Looker So wondering If we can do these security features from these tool or will have to bring in OKTA configuration(somehow) to configure this.
One way I am thinking to control this is by having multiple Service Account for the tool and depending on account assigned the role.
Or if people here can help me for how to implement this with a better way.
Snowflake has partnered with Tableau and Looker to integrate the access to Snowflake using OAuth.
Please refer to this document on how to set up the integration.
https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/oauth-partner.html
The user will log in to Snowflake using their own account via Tableau or Looker and all the data masking and row-level security that was applied to the user's role will take effect.
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.
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.