1. Create users and groups in Entra ID
In Microsoft Entra ID, users and groups are fundamental elements for managing access and permissions.
Users represent individual accounts, while groups allow for efficient organization and assignment of permissions.
They are crucial for an easy identity management, ensuring secure access to resources, and simplifying the administration of user privileges within the Azure environment.
Next, we are going to create and configure users and groups within Microsoft Entra ID.
We can observe on the "Overview" page lots of useful information like number of users, number of groups, number of devices and the type of license we possess.
Let's create a new user.
We use "john" for the username and in the "Display name" field we can use a more friendly name or the full name of the person.
We will also use "John" with no last name.
The initial password can be auto-generated and the user is going to be required to reset it on first login.
We are now ready to create our first user.
Let's navigate to the "Users" screen to get our entire list of users.
We will create a couple of other users by performing the same steps as before.
Diane, Eva and Michael will be our new users.
After creating all other users, hit "Refresh" in case the list is not updated.
Now it is time to create some groups and assign users to them. We go to "Default Directory" and then "Groups".
We will include the Finance department employees into the new group.
Now that we also have members selected, we can go ahead and create the new group.
Once again, we might need to refresh the list before having the group displayed in here.
Let's also create a "BI" group, but this time we won't assign any members yet.
We refresh and then select the “BI” group.
We can see there are no members in this group yet in the overview info.
We then assign Eva and Michael as members in this group.
It might take a while until the new users will be displayed here.
We can try refresh a couple of times until we see the users have been added.
Due to administrative limitations in the Azure platform, you will not be able to perform interactive exercises at this point.
But I have prepared another interactive session on permissions assignment in Azure portal in the next lesson.
2. Let's practice!