In an on-premises Active Directory environment, there can be application or service which required integration with Active Directory. With AD integration, the application can search for AD users, allow login, assign permissions, etc. This integration part is usually done using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). By default, traffic over LDAP is not encrypted. Due to the…
Similar to the on-premises Active Directory, we also can use PowerShell to manage Azure Active Directory. Let's see why we should use PowerShell to manage Azure Active Directory.
Early bird access to features– Microsoft keeps releasing new features, bug fixes, updates, feature enhancements more frequently to Azure AD services than on-premises Active Directory. Microsoft releases…
In order to manage Azure AD, we use Azure Active Directory option in https://portal.azure.com. By default, any user under Azure AD can access this option event they do not have a Directory role. In my demo setup, I have a user called "Emily Braun". She doesn't have any Directory role assigned.
Then I log in to Azure portal https://portal.azure.com as the user and then go to…
