I'm relatively new to the whole Microsoft environment and this has been tickling my brain for a while. What exactly is the difference between company users present, for example, in the Microsoft 365 admin center and on AzureAD for propery-editting purposes? Are they both synced together, do they serve different purposes? Most powershell scripts I find to retrieve, for example, all users and properties use cmdlets such as Get-AzureADuser, hence the question.
Thank you in advance!
They are the same.
The basic attributes of the users are stored in Azure AD and you can use Microsoft Graph to query them easily.
The difference between them is:
In O365 admin center, you can manage the access to resources under O365 subscriptions. For example: Exchange Online, SharePoint online, Teams Online and so on. But in Azure Portal, you can manage the access to resources under Azure subscription, such as Azure web app, Azure AD app registration, Azure VM, Azure security group and so on.
The company users indeed are Azure AD users. It's just called differently according to the environment (O365 or Azure AD).
Get-AzureADuser is under Azure AD PowerShell Module. You can also use Get-MsolUser which is under MSOnline PowerShell Module (it's old O365 Module) to get the users.
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We have a hybrid exchange environment that has all it mailboxes online. ExternalDirectoryObjectId is present in the results for EXO or Azure Powershell user management tools.
However, when i run Onprem Exchange PowerShell tools such as get-remotemailbox against users, the ExternalDirectoryObjectId property is listed but blank.
I have synced msDS-ExternalDirectoryObjectId back from Azure and this populates ExternalDirectoryObjectId for local AD get-aduser commands but not OnPrem Exchange tools.
I think i need to populate the AD user property msexchExternalDirectoryObjectId but i am unsure exactly how to set this up in in AD connect or what online property to sync with?
Has anyone had this issue before and can offer any advice on how to resolve it?
I am currently using O365 Graph API to create services for customers and realized that some of the capabilities that customers need, i.e. creating transport rules or accessing quarantined email information, are only available through PowerShell.
Can a vendor create transport rules or execute PowerShell commands for their customers? Similar to how vendors register their Azure AD application and request permissions, is there a way to run PowerShell command for customers by a vendor?
Documentation is not really helpful on this front.
When using Graph, I don't think you can, but if you want to do it with Powershell, if you're a Microsoft Partner, and have configured yourself as an advisor (delegated access permissions) for your clients (invite them to add you, or add yourself if you have their consent and global admin access to their tenancy).
Adding a partner to a tenant:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/customers_revoke_admin_privileges
See a bit of additional info here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/enterprise/powershell/manage-office-365-tenants-with-windows-powershell-for-delegated-access-permissio
When running Powershell commands, you'll need to refer to the TenantID when running a command on the client's tenancy (rather than your own).
A simple example of this might be:
Get a list of TenantIDs:
Get-MsolPartnerContract -All | Select-Object TenantId
Get a list of mailboxes for one of the TenantIds listed above:
Get-Mailbox -TenantID "asddfsdfadfg-dsfgsdfg-sdfgsdfg-dsfgsdfg"
This relies on you having logged into the Powershell session with a user that has administrative 'Partner' permissions in your partner tenancy.
Hopefully that helps somewhat!
I've manually created an Azure Active Directory tenant in the Azure Portal. The portal, however, doesn't present an interface where I can grant permission to other principals to own OR contribute to the AAD. For instance, adding users OR applications. Is that intentional? Or is this permissible via Powershell only. If so, what Powershell commands enable this programmatically? Thanks
When you adding a user to Azure Active Directory via the old portal you see this screen:
It allows you to add a user with an existing microsoft account.
I need to import many users with existing microsoft accounts. I'm planning on writing a powershell script to achive that.
How do I add an exising microsoft account to Azure AD with a powershell script?
New-AzureADUser complains that "userPrincipalName" is invalid, as can be seen in this question. Is there another way?
Unfortunately, Azure PowerShell modules do not support adding Microsoft accounts to Azure Active Directory. The only way to utilize this feature is to use the old Azure Portal https://manage.windowsazure.com/
This works using New-AzureADMSInvitation.
> Install-Module AzureAD
> Import-Module AzureAD
> Connect-AzureAD
> New-AzureADMSInvitation -InvitedUserEmailAddress 'test#test.com' -InviteRedirectUrl 'https://portal.azure.com'
Your output will contain an InviteRedeemUrl that the invitee should open in a browser which is already logged in with their Microsoft Account. There are other optional parameters that can be passed to New-AzureADMSInvitation. See the documentation here.
Are you sure you want to import all of the accounts? Azure Active Directory supports B2B model.
B2B is based on invitation model which lets you enable access to your corporate applications from partner-managed identities. You can provide email along with the applications you want to share and send invitation to your partners, customers or anyone else who have account in Azure Active Directory. Azure AD sends them an email invite with a link. The partner user follows the link and is prompted to sign in using their Azure AD account or sign up for a new Azure AD account.
In my opinion you don't have to import users. More info here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-b2b-collaboration-overview/
Im kinda new to Windows server, but have been checking out Microsoft Azure and like the IaaS.
Just a question about SSO verse Azure Active Directory Sync.
Im moving my infrastructure into Azure, my base is a AD server, "dirsync" or AD FS server and a few web servers etc. We use Google Apps for Email, Calendar and Drive.
So I see that there are two ways to keep my AD directory and Azure directory in sync. SSO and Azure Active Directory Sync.
If I use Azure Active Directory Sync and not setup AD FS on a server with SSO, will I still be able to use SSO with my Azure Directory to Apps the Microsoft have in the Azure portal?
The only reason I would need a AD FS server if I had Apps/Services on site that I wanted to use SSO with, correct?
I plan to run, kayako and CrashPlan in two VM's in Azure. Both will use LDAP/AD for usernames/password authentication. But would be cool to get SSO for both webapps so employees can sing-on via the myapps.microsoft.com portal.
The two ways are DirSync and AAD Sync. Refer: Synchronization Previews Now Available for Microsoft Azure Active Directory.
Sync = Same Sign On between on-premise and cloud
Sync + ADFS = Single Sign On between on-premise and cloud
Update
myapps.microsoft.com is for third-party vendors like SalesForce who have asked Microsoft to add them as a SaaS application to AAD. It's not for company specific apps.
For company specific apps., you need ADFS as above.
Having done that, if your user SSO's into your app. and then wants to use e.g. SalesForce, they won't have to login again.