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Lab 01: Manage user roles

Lab scenario

Your company recently hired a new employee who will perform duties as an application administrator. You must create a new user and assign the appropriate role.

Estimated time: 30 minutes

Exercise 1 - Create a new user and test their application admin rights

Task 1 - Add a new user

  1. Sign in to the https://entra.microsoft.com as a Global administrator

  2. In the left-hand menu select Identity.

  3. In the left navigation menu, under Users, select All Users, then select + New User and Create new user.

  4. Mark the Create user button. Then, create a user with the following information:

    Setting Value
    User principal name ChrisG
    Display Name Chris Green
  5. Mark the Auto-generate password option.

  6. Copy the generated password to a location you can remember it for the next task.

    You will have to change the password upon first login to this account

  7. Select Review + Create. Then select Create on the review screen. The user is now created and registered to your organization.

Task 2 - Login and try to create an app

  1. Launch a new InPrivate browser window.
  2. Open the Microsoft Entra admin center https://entra.microsoft.com as Chris Green.

    Setting Value
    User name ChrisG@your domain name.com
    Password Enter the auto-generated password from previous task.
  3. Update your password.

    Setting Value
    Current Password Use auto-generated password
    New Password Enter a unique and secure password
    Confirm Password Reenter a unique and secure password
  4. If you see a tour dialog, select the Maybe Later button.

  5. Search on and select Enterprise applications in the search dialog at the top of the screen.
  6. Select on + New application. Notice that + Create your own application is unavailable.

  7. Try Selecting on some of the other settings like Application Proxy, User settings, and others to see the Chris Green does not have rights.
  8. Select on ChrisG name in the upper-right corner and sign out.

Exercise 2 - Assign the application admin role and create an app

Task 1 - Assign a role to a user

Using Microsoft Entra ID, you can designate limited administrators to manage identity tasks in less-privileged roles. Administrators can be assigned for such purposes as adding or changing users, assigning administrative roles, resetting user passwords, managing user licenses, and managing domain names.

  1. If you are not already logged in as a Global Administrator role, open the Microsoft Entra admin center and log in.
  2. Navigate to Identity and then select Users page.
  3. Select on All users under the Manage section of the menu.
  4. Select on Chris Green account.
  5. Choose Assigned roles from the Manage menu.
  6. Select + Add assignments and mark the Application administrator role.
  7. Select Add

    Assigned roles page - showing the selected role

Note - If the lab environment has already activated Microsoft Entra ID Premium P2, Privileged Identity Management (PIM) will be enabled and you wll need to select Next and assign a Permanent role to this user.

9.Select the Refesh button.

Note - The newly assigned Application administrator role appears on the user’s Assigned roles page.

Task 2 - Check application permissions

  1. Launch a new InPrivate browser window.
  2. Open the Microsoft Entra admin center https://entra.microsoftcom as Chris Green.

    Setting Value
    User name ChrisG@your domain name.com
    Password Enter the unique and secure password you created earlier
  3. If you see a Welcome to Microsoft Azure tour dialog, Select the Maybe Later button.
  4. Search on and select Enterprise applications in the search dialog at the top of the screen.
  5. Notice that + New Application is available now.
  6. Select + New Application
  7. View the + Create your own application** is not grayed out. If you pick a gallery app, you will see the Create button is available.

    Note - This role now has the ability to add applications to the tenant. We will experiment more with this feature in later labs.

  8. Sign out of the Chris Green instance of the portal and close the browser.

Exercise 3 - Remove a role assignment

Task 1 - Remove the application administrator from Chris Green

This task will use an alternative method to remove the assigned role; it will use the Roles and administrators option in Micrisoft Entra ID.

  1. If you are not already logged in as your Global Admin, launch the Microsoft Entra admin center and log in now.
  2. In the search box type Roles and then launch Microsoft Entra ID roles and administration.
  3. In All roles of Roles and administrators, select the Application administrator role from the list.
  4. On the **Application administrator Assignments** page you should see Chris Green’s name listed.
  5. Put a check in the box next to Chris Green.
  6. Select X Remove assignments from the options at the top of the dialog.
  7. Answer Yes when the confirmation box opens.
  8. Close the screen.

Exercise 4 - Bulk import of users

Task 1 - Bulk operations for creating users with a .csv file

  1. In the Microsoft Entra ID menu, first open Identity, then select Users and then select All users.

  2. On the **Users All users** tile, select the Bulk operations drop-down arrow and then Bulk create.
  3. Selecting Bulk create will open a new tile. This tile provides a Download link to a template file that you will edit to populate with your user information and upload to add the bulk creation of users.

  4. Select Download to download the .csv file.

  5. The .csv template provides you with the fields included with the user profile. This includes the required username, display name, and initial password. You can also complete optional fields, such as Department and Usage location, at this time. The following screenshot is an example of how you can complete the .csvfile:

    Bulk import using csv file entry

    You can modify this file to add users in bulk. Note that you do not need to fill out all the field. As per the sample data provide, you mainly need to add the name and username information.

  6. A sample CSV has been provided in the Allfiles/Lab1 folder – SC300BulkUser.csv.
    1. Open Notepad.
      • Inside the lab environment, select the START button and type Notepad.
    2. Open the SC300BulkUser.csv file
    3. Change the enter your domain name to the domain of your Azure lab environment.
    4. Save the file.
  7. On the Bulk create users dialog, select the file folder icon on step 3.

  8. Path to the Allfiles/Lab1 folder and select SC300BulkUser.csv file.

  9. Select Open.

  10. You will be notified that the file uploaded successfully.  Choose Submit to add the users.
After the users have been created, you will be prompted that the creation has succeeded. Close the Bulk create users tile and the new users will be populated in the list of **Users All users**.

Task 2 - Bulk addition of users using PowerShell

  1. Open PowerShell as an administrator.  This can be done by searching for PowerShell in Windows and choosing Run as administrator.

Note - You need to have PowerShell version 7.2 or higher for this lab to function. When PowerShell opens you will get a version at the top of the screen, if you are running and older version, follow the instructions on the screen to go to https://aka.ms/PowerShell-Release?tag=7.3.9. Scroll down to the assets section and select powershell-7.3.1-win-x64.msi. When the download has completed, select Open file. Install using all the defaults.

  1. You will need to Install the Microsoft.Graph PowerShell module if you have not used it before. Run the following two commands and when prompted to confirm press Y:

     Install-Module Microsoft.Graph
    
  2. Confirm the Microsoft.Graph module is installed:

     Get-InstalledModule Microsoft.Graph
    
  3. Next, you will need to login to Azure by running:

     Connect-MgGraph -Scopes "User.ReadWrite.All"
    

    The Edge browser will open and you will be prompted to sign-in. Use the MOD Administrator account to connect. Accpet the permissions request; then close the browser window.

  4. To verify that you are connected and to see existing users, run:

     Get-MgUser 
    
  5. To assign a common temporary password to all new users, run the following command and replace the with the password that you would like to provide to your users.

     $PWProfile = @{
         Password = "<Enter a complex password you will>";
         ForceChangePasswordNextSignIn = $false
     }
    
  6. You are ready to create a new users. The following command will be populated with the user information and run. If you have more than one user to add, you can use a notepad txt file to add the user information and copy/paste into PowerShell.

     New-MgUser `
         -DisplayName "New PW User" `
         -GivenName "New" -Surname "User" `
         -MailNickname "newuser" `
         -UsageLocation "US" `
         -UserPrincipalName "newuser@<labtenantname.com>" `
         -PasswordProfile $PWProfile -AccountEnabled `
         -Department "Research" -JobTitle "Trainer"
    

    Note - Replace labtenantname.com with the onmicrosoft.com name assigned by the lab tenant.

Experiment with managing users

You can add and remove users with the Microsoft Entra ID page. However, users can be created and roles can be assigned using the scripting. Experiment with giving the Chris Green user account a different role using script.

Exercise 5 - Remove a user from Microsoft Entra ID

Task 1 - Remove a User

It may happen that an account is deleted and then needs to be recovered. You need to verify you can recover an account that has been deleted recently.

  1. Browse to https://entra.micrososft.com.

  2. In the left navigation, under Identity, select Users.

  3. Open the All users list, select the check box for a user that will be deleted. For example, select Chris Green.

    Tip - Selecting users from the list allows you to manage multiple users at the same time. If you select the user, to open that user’s page, you will only be managing that individual user.

    Screen image displaying the All users users list with one user check box selected and another check box highlighted indicating the ability to select multiple users from the list.

  4. With the user account selected, on the menu, select Delete.

  5. Review the dialog box and then select Yes.

Task 2 - Restore a deleted user

  1. In the Users page,select All User in the left navigation, select Deleted users.

  2. Review the list of deleted users and select Chris Green.

    Important - By default, deleted user accounts are permanently removed from Azure Active Directory automatically after 30 days.

  3. On the menu, select Restore user.

  4. Review the dialog box and then select OK.

  5. In the left navigation, select All users.

  6. Verify the user has been restored.

Exercise 6 - Add a Windows 10 license to a user account

Task 1 - Find your unlicensed user in Azure Active Directory

Some user accounts in your organization will not be provided all available products in their assigned license or will need updates or additions to their license assignment. You need to ensure you are able to update a user account’s license assignment in Azure AD.

  1. Browse to https://entra.microsoft.com.

  2. In the left navigation, under Identity, select Users, then select All users.

  3. In the Users page, enter Raul into the search box.

  4. Select on Raul Razo.

  5. Review Raul’s profile and ensure he has a Usage Location set.

    Warning - To assign a license to a user, the user must assigned a usage location.

  6. Select the Licenses menu item in the left-hand menu.

  7. Ensure that Raul has “No license assignments found.”

  8. Navigate back to the All Users in the left navigation, under Identity, select Users

  9. In the Users page, select Raul Razo.

  10. In the left navigation, select Licenses.

  11. Select the + Assignments button.

  12. On the Update license assignments page, select the check box for a Windows 10/11 Enterprise E3 license.

    Screen image displaying the Update license assignments page and license options highlighted

  13. When complete, select Save.

  14. At the top of the screen Select Home, then select Contoso, then select User, and select Raul Razo.

  15. Notice that the license has been assigned.