I presume that LocalDB does not support Azure AD auth, as I receive the following error message:
CREATE USER [myuser] FROM EXTERNAL PROVIDER;
Incorrect syntax near 'PROVIDER'.
(I'm attempting to create a Local DB for integration testing from the same DacPac).
However I cannot find any documentation that suggests explicitly that LocalDB (nor SQL Express) does not support Azure AD Auth.
Experience has found that just because it's not documented doesn't mean it's not possible.
In Azure SQL Server, you activate AD auth by assigning an Azure AD user to be an administrator, which can be done via AzureRM powershell module. Is there an equivalent none azurerm way of achieving the same thing?
Currently it is both not documented and not possible to do AAD auth on LocalDB.
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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.
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.
I am trying to connect to Snowflake in Databricks using an Azure access token generated from an existing Service Principal (not using the documentation's method to create one as I don't have the permissions to). Currently I am receiving the error "Invalid OAuth access token".
I believe the solution is I need snowflake to grant access to the service principal, however not sure how to do this or if it is even possible?
According to this Snowflake document, programmatic SSO with Federated Authentication (like you would need in a Databricks notebook) is only available for the Okta identity provider - even though Microsoft Azure Active Directory is among their supported Identity Providers
We're using MicroStrategy on-premises to access a warehouse in Snowflake. All the users connecting to Snowflake are authenticated through Azure AD. We want the same for MicroStrategy instead of using a local Snowflake account.
Is that possible?
Right now, when a user wants to connect through ODBC, we set up the Authenticator = ExternalBrowser. So when they use any software, the browser pops up for the authentication and then they continue to do their thing.
How can I set the ODBC of the MicroStrategy server to use the Azure AD authentication, without using the browser and by specifying the username we created for MicroStrategy in our AD.
Thanks,
JFS.
This likely requires you to configure MicroStrategy, Snowflake, and Azure AD to leverage OAuth2.
MicroStrategy has a how to guide here:
https://www2.microstrategy.com/producthelp/current/Gateway_Connections/WebHelp/Lang_1033/Content/integrate_sso_using_azure_for_snowflake.htm
I am trying to connect to Azure database via DataGrip using Active Directory connection (Note: not Active directory - password)
I followed accepted answer from this
I set integratedSecurity=false and authentication=ActiveDirectoryIntegrated.
When trying to connect to Test Connection I get error message
Connection to Azure SQL Database failed. Cannot set "Authetication" with "IntegratedSecurity" set to "true".
Is it some kind of bug that can be repaired, if so how could I solve this issue?
Edit:
More information:
On Azure Portal I can see that this is SQL database.
Server name ends with database.windows.net.
When I try to connect via Connection String (in Data Grip Add data from URL) generated by Azure I am not able to connect also.
The DataGrip support us using Azure Active Directory Authentication. Please see: Microsoft Azure .
You can get the connect string (URL) with Active Directory integrated authentication from Portal:
Replace the URL with the Connect string(Active Directory integrated authentication):
Hope this helps.
There is a lot of confusion around terminology here.
In short, the connection string attribute Integrated Security=true indicates you want to use "windows authentication". This type of authentication might be supported by any Azure SQL (anything whose hostname ends in database.windows.net). Azure SQL only supports Azure Active Directory authentication, butit might be possible to implement single sign on between a windows domain account and Azure Active Directory.