Adding users/groups to your Microsoft Entra ID tenant

Log in to the Microsoft Entra ID administration center to access your tenant.

Adding users to your tenant

  1. In Identity > Users > All users, click on New user, then onCreate a user.
  2. In the Main username field, enter the desired user name (e.g., john.doe).
    The suffix corresponding to the tenant is added automatically (e.g., @snsdoc.onmicrosoft.com).
    The full username will be the ID to be used to connect to the tenant (e.g., john.doe@snsdoc.onmicrosoft.com).
  3. Specify the user's Display name (e.g., John Doe).
  4. You can manually enter the Password for this user or Automatically generate password by selecting the checkbox of the same name.
  5. Click on Review + Create and confirm by clicking on Create.
    The user is then created.
  6. Repeat steps 2 to 6 to create all users on the tenant.

Assigning specific permissions to a user on the tenant

  1. In Identity > Users > All users, click on the name of the user to whom you wish to assign permissions.
  2. In the menu on the left, click on Roles assigned.
  3. Click on Add assignments and select the desired permissions (e.g., General administrator).
  4. Click on Add.

Assigning roles to users or groups in the application (optional)

NOTE
In order to assign roles to groups, a paid Microsoft Entra ID subscription is required.
Free subscriptions only make it possible to assign roles to users.

  1. In Identity > Enterprise applications, click on the name of your application (e.g., SNS Connector).
  2. Go to Manage > Users and groups.
  3. Click on Add user/group.
  4. Under Users, click on No selection.
  5. Select the users to whom you wish to assign the role.
  6. Click on Select.
  7. Under Select a role, click No selection.
  8. Select the desired role, and click on Select.
  9. Click on Assign.
    Users and their roles will then appear in the grid.
  10. Repeat steps 2 to 7 to assign all the roles.

Creating a group and assigning members to it

  1. In Identity > Groups > Overview, click on New group.
  2. For the Group type, select Security.
  3. Specify the Name of the group (e.g., SNS Authentication).
    You can add a Group description if needed.
  4. Click on No members selected, and select the users to be added to this group (e.g., John Doe).
  5. Confirm by clicking on Select.
  6. Click on Create.

Downloading user groups to import them into the SNS firewall

  1. In Identity > Groups > All groups, select the groups to be exported, then click on Download groups.
  2. Change the name of the suggested CSV file if needed, then click on Start download.. The CSV file will then be created.
  3. When the CSV file is ready, click on the link The file is ready! Click here to download, and save the CSV file on your workstation.