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Published inSep 2016
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Jochen Nickel
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Jochen Nickel is a Cloud, Identity and Access Management Solution Architect with a clear focus and in-depth technical knowledge of Identity and Access Management. He is currently working for inovit GmbH in Switzerland leading and executing projects in the field of Identity and Access Management including Data Classification and Information protection. Jochen is focused on Microsoft Technologies, especially in the Enterprise Mobility + Security Suite, Office 365 and Azure. He is an established speaker at many technology conferences like Azure Bootcamps, TrustInTech Meetups or the Experts Live Switzerland and Europe.
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Creating dynamic groups


In this section, we will build dynamic group memberships for different purposes, such as licensing or granting application access. We will divide this section into three main parts:

  • Using on premise groups for assigning licenses

  • Using PowerShell to assign Office 365 licenses based on groups

  • Using groups for application access assignment

    Tip

    You also have the option to use a custom Active Directory Attribute; see the following link to the solution: http://bit.ly/2afrAan.

With the following configurations you can access the capabilities of group management in a hybrid identity and access management infrastructure. Let's start!

Using on premise groups for assigning licenses

First of all, we need to identify the different licenses that are available on our Azure tenant. Basically, we do this with the following procedure:

  1. Open PowerShell.

  2. Use Connect-MsolService to connect to your Azure AD tenant with your Global Administrator account.

  3. With Get-MsolAccountSku you will receive the...

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Published in: Sep 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785889448

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Jochen Nickel

Jochen Nickel is a Cloud, Identity and Access Management Solution Architect with a clear focus and in-depth technical knowledge of Identity and Access Management. He is currently working for inovit GmbH in Switzerland leading and executing projects in the field of Identity and Access Management including Data Classification and Information protection. Jochen is focused on Microsoft Technologies, especially in the Enterprise Mobility + Security Suite, Office 365 and Azure. He is an established speaker at many technology conferences like Azure Bootcamps, TrustInTech Meetups or the Experts Live Switzerland and Europe.
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