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Peter Rising
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Peter Rising

Peter Rising has over 25 years' experience in IT. He has worked for several IT solutions providers and private organizations in a variety of technical and leadership roles, with a focus on Microsoft technologies. Since 2014, Peter has specialized in the Microsoft 365 platform, focusing most recently on security and compliance in his role as a Consulting Services Manager for Insight. Peter is heavily involved in the wider Microsoft community and has been recognized by Microsoft as an MVP. He holds several Microsoft certifications, including MCSE: Productivity; Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert; and Microsoft 365: Cybersecurity Architect Expert.
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Implementing Azure AD dynamic group membership

Before diving into the principles of Azure AD dynamic groups, it is important to take a step back and ensure you have an overall appreciation of the methods available for assigning access rights to your users in Azure AD. These methods are as follows:

  • Direct assignment: Permissions to Azure AD resources are granted by manually assigning access for the resource to an Azure AD object that has a credential.
  • Group assignment: Permissions to Azure AD resources are granted by manually assigning access for the resource to an Azure AD group containing a set of Azure AD user objects. These objects are added or removed from the group manually.
  • Rule-based assignment: Permissions to resources are granted by dynamically assigning users to a group. The rules for membership are defined based on specific user object attributes (such as the department field).
  • External authority assignment: Permissions to resources are granted by creating...
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Peter Rising

Peter Rising has over 25 years' experience in IT. He has worked for several IT solutions providers and private organizations in a variety of technical and leadership roles, with a focus on Microsoft technologies. Since 2014, Peter has specialized in the Microsoft 365 platform, focusing most recently on security and compliance in his role as a Consulting Services Manager for Insight. Peter is heavily involved in the wider Microsoft community and has been recognized by Microsoft as an MVP. He holds several Microsoft certifications, including MCSE: Productivity; Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert; and Microsoft 365: Cybersecurity Architect Expert.
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