How to add a user in Azure Active Directory

Frederique Retsema 2
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Adding a user in Azure Active Directory caused some troubles: it didn’t work as I thought it would. Let me explain.

Adding the user

I went to Azure Active Directory, clicked “Users” in the left menu and added the user via “New user”. I filled in some information and clicked on role “User” and choose “Global reader”: in the description it says “Can read everything that a global administrator can, but update nothing”. When I look at the user that I normally use in my main account, this user has the role “Global administrator” assigned to it, so this sounds good:

I choose “Netherlands” as usage location and pressed “Create”. In the list of users, I copied the User principal name:

Logging on as a new user

After logging out from my main account and logging on with my New User account, I went to the resource groups and saw the following:

I didn’t expect this: why is it asking for a (new) subscription? I have a perfectly valid subscription in my main account. Why doesn’t it use that, and why doesn’t it show the resource groups that I have in my main account? I looked at the settings for my new user in Azure Active Directory. I did that both with my main account credentials and also with the New User account. This went fine, so it did assign some permissions, but I couldn’t find a place where I could add my “main account subscription” to this user…

Subscription settings

In the end, I went to the subscription, and changed the IAM settings: I choose for reader and clicked on my newly created user.

When I refreshed the resource groups screen in the session I used for my New User account, I got a rather vague error. After a few minutes I refreshed the screen again and then I saw that my resource groups were visible. All the other screens worked as well.

Conclusion

Learning a new cloud can be hard: there are many features, many settings and the settings you need can also be in places you don’t expect them to be. But in the end I succeeded in achieving my goal and I’m glad I know a little bit more about the way Azure works.

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Frederique Retsema

Frederique Retsema is active in IT since 1993. She loves to automate everything, her main interests are currently the serverless solutions in the AWS and Azure cloud. She works from September 2021 at Xforce. Xforce and AMIS are both part of the Conclusion holding. AMIS and Xforce work very well together!
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