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When to add users to conditional access policy?
If there are a large amount of individual users that are needed to be added to directly to a Conditional Access policy, we recommend placing the users in a group, and assigning the group to the Conditional Access policy instead. If users or groups are a member of over 2048 groups their access may be blocked.
How does access control work in Active Directory?
If you don’t use an Active Directory domain in your environment, access is controlled by the Users and Administrators local groups on the Windows Admin Center gateway machine. You can enforce smartcard authentication by specifying an additional required group for smartcard-based security groups.
How to configure user access control and permissions?
Desired State Configuration will run a one-time configuration to configure a Just Enough Administration endpoint on the machine, named Microsoft.Sme.PowerShell. This endpoint defines the 3 roles used by Windows Admin Center and will run as a temporary local administrator when a user connects to it.
What are users and groups in Azure AD?
Users and groups Allows targeting of specific sets of users. For example, organizations can select a group that contains all members of the HR department when an HR app is selected as the cloud app. A group can be any type of group in Azure AD, including dynamic or assigned security and distribution groups.
How is PowerShell used to manage conditional access?
Microsoft provides many methods to manage a tenant’s data and users. PowerShell is a powerful tool to manage resources, including Conditional Access Policies using a set of cmdlets in the AzureAD module. In this article, we review the eight PowerShell cmdlets and how to use them.
When to use conditional access in Azure AD?
Let’s say that as the administrator, you decide to use Azure AD Conditional Access to require multi-factor authentication (MFA) and limit authentication requests to specific networks or devices. During deployment planning, you realize that not all users can meet these requirements.
When to use report only or user action required?
User action required: The number of users or sign-ins during the time period where the combined result of the selected policies was “Report-only: User action required”. User action is required when an interactive grant control, such as multi-factor authentication is required by a report-only Conditional Access policy.