Tag: Azure AD Connect

Use Custom Attributes for automatically populate Azure AD Dynamic Group Memberships

On By Ronny de JongIn Active Directory, Azure, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory Connect, Cloud, Enterprise Mobility Suite, Infrastructure4 Comments

March this year the Active Directory team announced Attribute Based Dynamic Group Membership for Azure AD. Until then, group membership was a manual thing that had to be done for each user. With this feature you can specify a rule on an Azure AD security group that will automatically manage the membership of that group based on user’s attribute values. Dynamic Group Membership is supporting by default a subset of user attributes which can be used.

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But what if you use in your organization custom attributes for various applications-, business- and provisioning processes? In this blog post we go further and will explain how to use custom AD attributes, extend your Azure AD tenant and use these custom attributes to automatically populating a security group.

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Get Started with the Enterprise Mobility Suite

On By Ronny de JongIn Azure, Azure AD Connect, Cloud, Enterprise Mobility, Enterprise Mobility Management, Enterprise Mobility Suite, Events, Hybrid Identity, Intune, Microsoft Intune, Mobile Device ManagementLeave a comment

undefinedOver the next six weeks I’ll provide along with my colleagues Valerie Siroux and Arjan Vroege several webinars on Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite. If you want to know more about for instance Azure Active Directory Premium, Microsoft Intune, Azure Rights Management Services, you can not miss these webinars.

Learn more about EMS in 6 webinars

On the following dates will take place the Enterprise Mobility Suite webinars. Please note that these webinars are taught in English. Through the links below you can register free of charge.

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Assign EMS licenses based on Local Active Directory Group Membership

On By Ronny de JongIn Active Directory, Azure, Azure AD, Azure Information Protection, Cloud, Enterprise Mobility, Enterprise Mobility Suite, Infrastructure, Intune, Microsoft Intune4 Comments

 

 

As all roads lead to Rome there are many ways to assign Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) licenses to end-users. This can be a manual process or automated by using PowerShell. Both options have in common that you must be a global administrator of your Azure subscription to assign these licenses.

The majority of the available public resources and publications describes the (manual) process bassed on per user- or group assignment through the Azure Management Portal. Downside of assigning EMS licenses through the Azure Management Portal or by PowerShell is that you must be a member of the global administrator user role. A right you want to keep to a limited number of accounts, further these accounts are often not responsible for such tasks as assigning licenses.

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