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AZ-104 Azure Identity - Creating and Managing Groups

  • Describing groups
  • Practical Use
  • Creating a group
  • Managing group membership

Azure Management groups: Create a hierarchy of Azure management groups tailored to your organization to efficiently manage your subscriptions and resources.

  • Owners and Members: An owner of the group or a member of the group.
  • Type of group: A security group or a Microsoft 365 group.
  • Membership Type: Assigned, dynamic user or dynamic device.

To create a new group we can navigate to Entra ID then groups then add group

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We have different membership types

  • Assigned: Manually or in bulk add users
  • Dynamic user: Add variables per fields such as department for example to add all users from X department
  • Dynamic Device: This apply to specific hardware devices.

We need to click on Add Dynamic Query to add our rules for dynamic users in this case.

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Here we added a Rule Syntax to add all members of Company-name X to our group, there are multiple properties and operators we can use.

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Now we need to add users then validate and see if they belong to group HR

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we can also search by user-type for all Guest for example and apply a group for all Guests.

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Group Types

  • Security: Security groups are used to manage access o shared resources for a group of users.
  • Microsoft 365: These groups are used to give members access to shared mailbox, calendar, files, etc.
  • Assigned: Users are specifically selected to be members of a group.
  • Dynamic user: Membership rules are created that automate group membership via user attributes.
  • Dynamic Device: Membership rules are created that automate group membership via devices attributes.