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Lab 01 - Manage Microsoft Entra ID Identities
Lab introduction
This is the first in a series of labs for Azure Administrators. In this lab, you learn about users and groups. Users and groups are the basic building blocks for an identity solution.
Estimated timing: 30 minutes
Lab scenario
Your organization is building a new lab environment for pre-production testing of apps and services. A few engineers are being hired to manage the lab environment, including the virtual machines. To allow the engineers to authenticate by using Microsoft Entra ID, you have been tasked with provisioning users and group. To minimize administrative overhead, membership of the groups should be updated automatically based on job titles.
Lab - Interactive lab simulation
This lab uses an interactive lab simulation. The simulation lets you to click through a similar scenario at your own pace. An Azure subscription is not required.
Note: This simulation is being updated. Microsoft Entra ID is the new name for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).
- Lab - Manage Entra ID Identities. Create and configure users and assign to groups. Create an Azure tenant and manage guest accounts.
Architecture diagram
Job skills
- Task 1: Create and configure user accounts.
- Task 2: Create groups with dynamic membership.
- Task 3: Create a new tenant with user and groups.
- Task 4: Invite a guest user.
Key takeaways
Congratulations on completing the lab. Here are some main takeways for this lab:
- Microsoft Entra ID has member users and guest users. Each type has a level of access specific to the scope of work expected to be done.
- Groups combine together related users or devices. There are two types of groups including Security and Microsoft 365.
- Group membership can be assigned statically or dynamically.
- A tenant represents your organization and helps you to manage a specific instance of Microsoft cloud services for your internal and external users.
Learn more with self-paced training
- Understand Microsoft Entra ID. Compare Microsoft Entra ID to Active Directory DS, learn about Microsoft Entra ID P1 and P2, and explore Microsoft Entra Domain Services for managing domain-joined devices and apps in the cloud.
- Create Azure users and groups in Microsoft Entra ID. Create users in Microsoft Entra ID. Understand different types of groups. Create a group and add members. Manage business-to-business guest accounts.
- Allow users to reset their password with Microsoft Entra self-service password reset. Evaluate self-service password reset to allow users in your organization to reset their passwords or unlock their accounts. Set up, configure, and test self-service password reset.