If one synchronizes custom attributes via Azure AD Connect, schema extensions are made to Azure AD and there is an associated application made in Azure AD with a DisplayName of "Tenant Schema Extension App".
Unfortunately, these extensions are uniquely named, as well with extension_AppIdGuid_attributeName.
With the Azure AD PowerShell module, it is easy enough to find this:
$ExtensionGuid = ((Get-AzureADApplication |
Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -eq "Tenant Schema Extension App"}).AppId).Replace("-","")
These can also be queried within the Microsoft Graph. However, I cannot find a mechanism within the Microsoft Graph to find what the AppId is.
I have queried:
/organization
/schemaExtensions
/$metadata
The Azure AD Graph seems to have the capability, but it is going away and the Microsoft Graph is the future. I want it there. Any help is appreciated.
You can find the Tenant Schema Extension app in Microsoft Graph via the following query:
https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/applications?$filter=displayName eq 'Tenant Schema Extension App'
Unlike the Azure AD Graph which Application object which has an id and an appId, the Microsoft Graph Application object only has an id property which corresponds to the appId value in the Azure AD Graph.
Note: As per the Microsoft Graph documentation for GET /applications you require any the following permissions:
Delegated (work or school account): Directory.Read.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All, Directory.AccessAsUser.All
Application: Directory.Read.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All
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I'm trying to setup a user lifecycle flow that will allow me to create an Azure Active Directory user (Member, not Guest) when an employee is created in our HRIS tool (HiBob). There is a pre-existing integration which is enabled and allows us to get basic information (name, location, etc.).
In the HRIS system we also store some more unique data that I would like to be added to the users AAD profile (maybe an emergency contact for example) that we can then use to provision other applications (like Slack).
My issue is trying to create these custom property fields. I have read about Azure B2C as well as directory schema, custom security extensions and using MS Graph. None of these seem to be totally relevant to my situation.
FYI we are fully cloud, so Azure AD Connect is also not an option.
To store custom data in Azure AD objects such as users you can leverage Azure AD Directory Extensions in tandem with Azure AD Provisioning trough SCIM.
I am setting up a new company and we are using Azure AD. We are remote-first and cloud-only. We do not and will not have an on-premises Active Directory controller.
How is it recommended to store employee data such as birthday, hire date, and social security number? It is unclear how to extend the schema. When I try to fetch a birth date using the Graph API, I get "Error message: This operation target is not yet supported.". When I extend the schema using "External Identities -> Custom User Attributes", I don't see a way to edit those inside the Azure AD portal.
My administrative interface is a Java application built using the Microsoft Graph API. It works fine for the standard fields (e.g., displayName, givenName, surname, etc.).
I am currently integrated with a PostgreSQL database in Azure using the authentication that works against the Azure AD API. That works fine and I can put employee metadata there, but is is not clear if I should.
We can store the employee data like birthday and hire date in azure AD through couple of ways.
One way is to use azure ad connect (if you have on premise active directory) and the other way is using schema extensions. You need to use Microsoft Graph API to work with azure ad schema extension, there is no direct option to extend the schema from azure portal.
Please follow the steps in this doc to Create schemaExtension
Schema extensions are supported for following resource types.
1.contact
2.device
3.event on a user or Microsoft 365 group calendar
4.post of a Microsoft 365 group
5.group
6.message
7.organization
8.user user resource type
Here is the reference article written by #Toni PohI, About Azure AD schema extension Working with Azure AD schema extensions and Microsoft Graph
Using AAD Connect you can flow an extension attribute from AD to the MV attribute employeeHireDate which will export successfully to AAD.
Make sure your extension attribute uses Generalized-Time syntax. These dates are strings in the format "YYYYMMDDhhmmss.0Z".
Then create an inbound sync rule to populate employeeHireDate
This will flow to AAD. This was completed with AAD Connect Version: 2.1.16.0
My question is, do we have any documented method of granting a Manage Service Identity permissions to the Graph API as we would with an Azure App Registration in the portal? I was unable to find any Powershell options or ability to manage permissions for the MSI service principal in the Azure Portal or documentation. I found a similar question on MSDN forums, but wanted to make sure there were not any further updates or workarounds that anybody knew of?
MSDN Forum Post: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/azure/en-US/dae34534-f193-4444-b52e-ba9cfa4a1fda/does-azure-msi-support-accessing-graph-api?forum=WindowsAzureAD
Disclaimer - I'm not overly familiar with MSIs, but as they are modeled as service principals, this should work. Also I'm not able to validate these steps.
These steps require that you use Azure AD PowerShell (v2) to assign application permissions to your MSI (to access Microsoft Graph), and that you are an administrator or app admin in your tenant. For Microsoft Graph, the documented permissions can be found here. The same instructions could be used for other resources secured by Azure AD too. I'll assume that you've already installed the PowerShell module.
Connect-AzureAD to connect PS to Azure Ad. Enter your admin creds.
$graph = Get-AzureADServicePrincipal -Filter "AppId eq '00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000'" to find the service principal representing Microsoft Graph and assign it to a variable. The service principal for Microsoft Graph is currently created just in time on first access, so there is a possibility it doesn't exist. It can be created by calling New-AzureADServicePrincipal -AppId "00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000".
$graph.AppRoles - this will show you all the available application permissions that you can choose from that are exposed by Microsoft Graph. For example if your MSI needs to read group information, find the "Group.Read.All" permission from the list, and make a note of its permission Id (it's a GUID). For example here's one of the records from the AppRoles list:
AllowedMemberTypes : {Application}
Description : Allows the app to read events of all calendars without a signed-in user.
DisplayName : Read calendars in all mailboxes
Id : 798ee544-9d2d-430c-a058-570e29e34338
IsEnabled : True
Value : Calendars.Read
Find your MSI's objectId (assuming you don't know it, but that you do know its clientId/appId):
$msi = Get-AzureADServicePrincipal -Filter "AppId eq '{Your_MSI_appId}'"
For each of the permissions your MSI needs, run the following PS cmdlet to assign the permission to your MSI:
New-AzureADServiceAppRoleAssignment -Id {permissionId} -PrincipalId $msi.ObjectId -ResourceId $graph.ObjectId
And that should do it. You should now be able to acquire an access token for your MSI to call Microsoft Graph, and the access token should contain a roles claim that matches the permissions (ids) that you've assigned above. You can then use that access token to call Microsoft Graph. This is similar to steps 6 and 7 in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/msi-overview.
Hope this helps,
The RequestDenied message is expected. There was a change to this that updating the System MSI SP is now blocked.
When I log onto the Microsoft Graph Explorer with my Microsoft account and run the following query https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/ I get the correct user returned.
On Azure AD (using the same login) I created an application with a key and when I sign in through c# using Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory.ClientCredentials with a token for resource https://graph.microsoft.com and run the same query I get a completely different user. They are out of sync and I'm baffled.
Any ideas? Should I create a new Azure account as I've had the Azure account from day 1 and I'm only doing this now to test for a client request.
Don't create a new Azure account. When you are using Graph Explorer, are you signed in with a user from your Azure AD tenant? If not, Graph Explorer will default to use a demo tenant for your queries.
Also (if you have more than one tenant) you need to make sure that you select the correct tenant as part of the token acquisition (from https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenantId | tenantDomain}. If you want the results to match between Graph Explorer and your app, the tenant the signed-in user belongs to (for Graph Explorer case) and the tenant used by your app needs to be the same.
UPDATE based on comment below:
I think I know what's going on here. In graph explorer, you are signing in with your personal account - and it's showing you profile data of that personal account, including the unique ID for this account in the Microsoft Account system. In this case you aren't signing into an Azure AD tenant at all. Microsoft Graph supports access from both personal and commercial accounts.
Now, additionally, I'm guessing when you signed up for an Azure subscription, you used this personal account. When you do that, it creates an Azure AD tenant, and creates a guest user in that tenant that is (linked to) your personal account - this account is also configured as an admin account. This mechanism allows you to sign in with your personal account (authenticated by the Microsoft Account system) into an Azure AD tenant, because the personal account maps to this guest user in your tenant. In your application, you are getting an app token to your Azure AD tenant. When you query the tenant for users, you don't see any user with the same id or email address as you did with graph explorer. However if you actually look at the userPrincipalName, you'll see it should be a mangled form of the original email address of your personal account. This indicates that this Azure AD user account in your tenant is a guest/external user (similar to a foreign principal).
Hope this helps,
When RBAC was introduced in Azure Active directory, roles can be granted to users or collection of users (groups).We followed this blog post and added that functionality for our apps when it first got introduced. But now, we have to go for active directory premium to assign roles to groups and get roles in bearer token.Going with Azure Active directory is not a feasible solution for us as premium is gonna cost us $6 user/ month and we have lot of groups and each group has lot of users. Looking at the costs our IT team is not willing to go for this package. I was just wondering if there an alternative approach for mapping roles to groups. Or this is only doable using premium.
Using Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) with an Azure AD Premium or Azure AD Basic license, you can use groups to assign access to a SaaS application that's integrated with Azure AD( refer here about detail).
So if you want to manage the roles using the group, we need at least the Azure AD Basic license. If you were using the free edition, we can only assign the roles to the users one by one.
Instead using the role manage the access for the application, we can also use the group which also supports for the Azure AD free edition. You can check the code sample about authorization in a web app using Azure AD groups & group claims from here.