How does Azure AD work with Sitecore identity?

How does Azure AD work with Sitecore identity?

This will instruct Azure AD to pass along the identifiers of all Security Groups the authenticated user is a member of in the claims back to Sitecore Identity. Sitecore Identity can then use those claims to map back to roles in Sitecore — which we’ll see in a little bit.

How to create Federated authentication for Sitecore 9?

Step 1: Login to azure portal and click “New” and search for “Azure Active Directory” and click “Create” as shown below. Step 2: Provide the basic information like “Organization name”, domain name, country and click Create button as shown in below screen shot.

How to create Sitecore admin group in Active Directory?

For this walkthrough, we’re going to map a group in our Active Directory named “SitecoreAdmin”, which will become Administrators in our Sitecore instance. First, find your group in AD that you’ll use for admin membership, and open it up (or create a new group if you currently don’t have a group in place).

Can a Sitecore user have a unique name?

Since there’s no guarantee that the user information from your identity servers will be unique, Sitecore is creating a unique user – unfortunately, it’s a unique user that doesn’t have much semblance of a sane naming convention.

How to add admin role to Sitecore plugin?

1. Go to the Security Group in the Azure AD. Note the Object ID for the group. For this demo, we are using the Sitecore_Admin group for mapping to the Admin role in Sitecore. 2. Now open /Sitecore/Sitecore.Plugin.IdentityProvider.AzureAd.xml file, add the value of the group Id to the Source Claim.

How to map a group to a Sitecore role?

Our first step will be to visit Azure AD and find the Object ID of the group that we want to map to a Sitecore role:

How to map claims to user profiles in Sitecore?

In a child data node, there are two properties: Source and Target. Source should be the name of the claim coming in to Sitecore that we want to transform. Target is the name of the property on the User Profile we want to map to. With this configuration in place, recycle both your Sitecore Identity server and the Sitecore instance.

Who are the subjects and users of Sitecore?

Subject/User (Sitecore User): Subjects are the users who wish to access the resources of an organization using federated authentication/SSO. Identity Provider (Azure AD): Identity providers are those parties that authenticate users and issue token/claims to the relying party (SP).

How to change Sitecore Identity Server App service?

Open your Sitecore Identity Server App Service, and pop open the App Service Editor under Development Tools. We’re going to make these changes to the Identity Server instance directly, but you could certainly incorporate these actions as part of your build process, or even in the deploy of your Sitecore Identity server.

How to map user profiles in Sitecore 9.1?

This is done by overriding the Sitecore.Owin.Authentication.Services.DefaultExternalUserBuilder, and is outside the scope of this blog post. However, it’s far more likely that you just want a way to identify the users in your system – by mapping their names, e-mail addresses, or other information from the Identity Providing system.

How to add application to Azure Active Directory?

Start by adding your Application to the approved applications in your Azure Active Directory instance. I’m using the preview version of the application interface, which looks like this: Give your application a friendly name (to help identify environment/application, for example).