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Wehave a new log in experience integrated with Azure AD, and we stronglyrecommend you log in with your Azure AD (Office 365) account. If yourUserVoice account is the same email address as your Azure AD account, yourprevious activities will be automatically mapped to your Azure AD account. You can read more here for details: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Azure-Active-Directory-Identity/Putting-customers-first-for-f...
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Add support for nested groups in Azure AD (app access and provisioning, group-based licensing)
A lot of organizations use nested groups in on-premise AD. Syncronizing these groups to Azure AD have no value today. But the group itself have value on-premise
Creating new group in AD with only users and then synchronize it to Azure AD creates extra administration for administrators and confusion for end-users.Dynamic Groups in Azure AD as of today don’t have support for “Member Of” or similar hence don’t solve the problem.
Adding nested groups to Azure AD would add a lot of value to Azure AD.
2,689 votesWe’re currently evaluating an option that will provide the functionality offered by nested groups, but removes the complexity nested groups adds. We appreciate your patience on this ask and want to ensure we deliver a solution that benefits all of our customers. Below are use cases that we’d like for you to stack rank, with #1 being priority for you. We thank you for the continued comments and feedback.
Use case A: nested group in a cloud security group inherits apps assignment
Use case B: nested group in a cloud security group inherits license assignment
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Dynamic Groups: Member of group
Would be good to have the possibility to use membership in other groups as a condition in a dynamic group membership rule.
Example:
(user.objectId -memberOf group.objectId)
(user.objectId -notMemberOf group.ObjectId)Use case 1 - Group Based Licensing.
If the user is member of a group that gives them a E5 license, don't let them be member of a group that gives them E3.Use case 2 - Exceptions
All users should have a MDM policy applied, accept those of a specific group.1,703 votesThank you for your feedback! The feature team is aware of this suggestion and will keep it under consideration. There are technical challenges to overcome in order to make this happen. Please keep the votes coming if this feature matters to you.
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Allow the User Admin role to Enable/Disable MFA for users
Managing MFA settings for users seems to fit the scope of the User Admin role. I don't think this activity should require Global Admin access.
1,491 votesWe have released the Authentication administrator and Privileged authentication administrator roles that can manage the authentication methods of the user. If you are using Azure AD Premium, consider enforcing MFA on the user using Conditional Access. We are continuing to work on other roles that will let you manage other MFA settings.
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Merge office365 and live accounts that use the same email address
I use both Azure/msdn and office 365
I already had an msdn account mvdl@our-company.com ( Windows Live account) and our company recently migrated to Office 365 which resulted in a mvdl@our-company.com Office365 account.Wich is causing a lot of grieve when switching between asure web portal / msdn web portal / office 365 web portal
Even when I have no portals open, I cant switch accounts. I need to explicity open the portal that I last logged in to. Log out, and then I can switch accounts.
And having both office 365 portal and Azure portal open at the same…
1,349 votesFolks,
Thanks for the questions and suggestions. And apologies for not sharing any update on this thread for so long. We’ve been working on this problem and have announced changes on our official team blog (see here: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2016/09/15/cleaning-up-the-azure-ad-and-microsoft-account-overlap/).
First, we are acutely aware of the UX pain this is causing and we are sorry for this. We are trying to undo a decade and a half of systems divergence. There are literally hundreds of different engineering teams across Microsoft involved in this effort. So this is taking time.
Second, we can’t easily “merge” two accounts, or allow IT to “take over” personal Microsoft accounts. There are two main hurdles: (1) The terms of service are fundamentally different for the two account types and (2) they are based on different technologies with different stacks (different identifiers, SDKs, token formats, etc.). We’re working to converge the two stacks but again this…
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Add MFA support to Secure the Windows 10 logon
Creating a way to secure the Logon to a Windows 10 workstation with MFA would then remove much of the complexity required to secure all the applications installed upon it (such as DA etc).
This would need to have the ability to store offline logins somehow which is possible with RSA SecurID.
It would and the final touches to a really great solution.
1,321 votesFor requiring additional factors with Windows Hello for Business, please see – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-protection/hello-for-business/feature-multifactor-unlock
For why PIN is better than a password, please see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-protection/hello-for-business/hello-why-pin-is-better-than-password
For Authenticator app sign in to Azure AD, please see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/authentication/howto-authentication-phone-sign-in
As always, other feedback is welcome
/Ravi
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Fully customizable verification emails
Currently, Azure AD B2C sends verification codes via emails to end users during sign-up and password reset flows. These emails have limited customization. Add support for full customization of the email body & content.
1,204 votesWe continue evaluating several alternatives to provide full email customization. We are actively working on an alternative.
Unfortunately we do no yet have an ETA.
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Authenticating wireless access points \ RADIUS through Azure AD
I would like to see Authenticating wireless access points \ RADIUS servers through Azure AD , not having to store user accounts in local active directory
1,150 votesThanks for the feedback, we’re currently reviewing this capability to see how we can support RADIUS auth on NPS specifically, for AAD Joined Windows 10 devices to authenticate to WiFi access points
If there are scenarios beyond the above, please provide the details in the comments
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Set an AzureAD account to expire on a specified date
Just like in active directory allow accounts to be set to expire on a specified date. Our company policy is to set network accounts for non-employees (consultants, contractors, temporary employees, interns) to expire at a certain interval after they are created. We want the same functionality within Office 365.
1,104 votes145 comments · User Creation, Deletion, and Profile Management · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →Thank for letting us know this is important to you. This is something we are considering, but there is no timeline yet. We would love to hear more about the specific scenarios that this is needed for, so keep providing info.
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Customer-owned domains
Run Azure AD B2C's sign-up & sign-in pages under a custom domain, for e.g., login.contoso.com, instead of login.microsoftonline.com.
1,068 votesThank you for your patience. We have released custom domains for Azure AD B2C to public preview.
Documentation can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-b2c/custom-domain?pivots=b2c-custom-policy
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PowerShell and Graph API support for managing Multi-Factor Authentication
Currently, the only available option to automate Azure MFA administration appears to be the MSOnline PowerShell module, released back in 2015.
The MSOnline module's Set-MsolUser and Get-MsolUser cmdlets allow administrators to enable and disable MFA on a user object using PowerShell scripts.
Alas, the MSOnline module itself does not support MFA when connecting to Azure AD. Administrators hoping to make use of the MSOnline module cannot have MFA enabled on their accounts. In short, for an admin to manage MFA with PowerShell, the admin's account can't be protected by MFA.
The new AzureAD and AzureADPreview PowerShell modules support connecting to…
929 votesWe’re really pleased to let you know that we’ve released the first authentication method APIs to public preview:
https://docs.microsoft.com/graph/api/resources/authenticationmethods-overview
So far there are APIs for managing phone numbers and password resets. When phone numbers are set with the API, the user can use that number for MFA and SSPR (as allowed by your tenant’s policy).
The team is hard at work at building out APIs for all of the other authentication methods, and we’ll update the response here as they’re released.
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Automate Seamless SSO Kerberos decryption key rollover AZUREADSSOACC
Currently to automate the Kerberos SSO decryption key rollover for AZUREADSSOACC , we would need to store domain admin and tenant global admin credentials in a script or scheduled task.
This is obviously not ideal. We currently having to perform the rollover task manually each month.
Please look at how this process could be improved for automation.
856 votesHi everyone,
Thanks for your interest on this feature. This capability is still in the pipeline. The initial estimate was obviously off and we are looking at a new timeline. We are aware of the benefit of having this rollover made automatic and the interest you have on the feature, and that’s how we are looking at it while prioritizing it against other capabilities requests.
Thanks for your patience!Jairo Cadena
Principal Program Manager
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Remove requirement for onprem Exchange when using DirSync
as per : http://tinyurl.com/kqgjvqx
Currently for a small business who want password sync, but make the move to 365. they have to keep Exchange running on premise simply to be able to edit user attributes related to Exchange. - an active directory DLL, standalone app or simply support in the 365 portal would solve this for so many customers.
719 votesApologies for the lack of updates here. This work is still in progress; however, we do not have a public ETA to share currently. We will keep you updated as we get closer. Thanks!
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Allow Conversion of AD Synced Accounts to "In Cloud Only"
Up until recently, we were able to convert a user which was AD Synced to a cloud account by moving it to an OU in AD which was not synced.
After the next sync, Office 365 would move it into the deleted folder. If you recover it, it goes into a cloud account. As of a few weeks ago, Microsoft disabled this.Looking at countless threads around the internet, and speaking with representatives from Microsoft Office 365 support, everyone is frustrated with this change, and wants it changed back to the way it was.
704 votesWe are aware of the requirement to be able to convert a synced user to cloud only and are designing that feature, but we have no timelines to share right now.
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Ability to trigger a dynamic group update
It would be wonderful if there was a way to trigger a re-sync of dynamic groups after changes are made. Right now some changes take over 24 hours to show and when experimenting with new dynamic rules it makes it difficult to see results. The trigger could be something like the Reset and Resync box in Enterprise Apps provisioning or just a Powershell applet that can be run.
650 votesOur feature team is looking into options for addressing this scenario, but we do not yet have any timelines to share. For now as a workaround, you can manually trigger the reprocessing by updating the membership rule to add a whitespace at the end. We’ve also added the ability to check the membership processing status, to keep track of the status and know if processing is complete.
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AzureAD Role Delegation to Groups
Currently in AzureAD msolroles can only be assigned to users and servicePrincipals using the add-msolRoleMember cmdlet. Groups cannot be a msol-roleMember - although the add-msolroleMember cmdlets' RoleMemberType Parameter can be set to Group. But we always get an exception which says that this value is invalid....
Usually we delegate access to resources using ActiveDirectory Groups instead of users, which makes the Management much easier. To achieve a Role Delegation to Groups we have to deploy a Powershell that synchronizes Group-Members with Role-Members of a specific role. This is a valid Workaround but a nasty one compared to a direct delegation…630 votesFolks,
Assigning built-in roles, custom roles and admin unit scoped roles to cloud groups is in public preview. Thanks a ton for all the great feedback that you shared with us. Here’s the published documentation -https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/users-groups-roles/roles-groups-concept
Next steps —> Support for on-prem groups. Stay tuned!
Regards,
Abhijeet Kumar Sinha
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Azure Domain Services Support for LAPS
Allow (or automatically install) LAPS within Azure Domain Services since this is the Microsoft supported standard for local administrator accounts.
LAPS: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/3062591.aspx
535 votesThis is currently in planning for enabling it for Azure AD joined devices, NOT for AAD DS
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Allow for customized error messages in Azure AD Conditional Access policies
Allow for an administrator to create customized error messages to replace the generic AAD conditional access "you do not meet the criteria." For example, if I have a conditional access policy that blocks access for Windows devices based on a specific criteria, I could display a custom error message that would offer links to support sites, or IT support #. In addition, allow for multiple custom error messages to be defined, and linked to specific policies that block access. For example, we could display a different error message on PC, iOS, or Android devices that are blocked via a conditional…
534 votesThanks for the continued feedback on this. We’re in planning.
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Support NPS/RADIUS for Azure AD Domain Services
Add support for Microsoft NPS/RADIUS in Azure AD Domain Services
514 votesUPDATE 01/06/2020
Multiple scenarios are still being investigated.
(We changed the status to because Started implied we were working on the feature and we did not want to represent it inaccurately. We are investigating and therefore, we are marking it under review. -
Enable SSPR to reset Windows cached credentials
In reference to - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/authentication/tutorial-sspr-windows
Its great that SSPR can now be invoked from the login screen. This however seems like a relatively minor benefit to the average user since most have a mobile device with which they can follow the flow. I don't mean to demean the achievement since its definitely needed. However, what is a major issue (and which generates just as many support issues (and erodes IT credibility) as no SSPR at all) is the lack of SSPR for cached credentials when users are off the network/VPN. This happens to be the most common use case we…
504 votesHey folks! Thank you for your feedback. We are reviewing this ask and will keep you up to date on our findings. We have also added information about this limitation in our documentation. Thank you!
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Enable support for dynamic mail-enabled security groups
Dynamic security groups are great, mail-enabled groups are great too wouldn't it be great to have both. We have a requirement to create security groups (or distribution groups) based on employee attributes (i.e. Active Full-time, Active Parttime, etc...). These attributes live in Azure AD but aren't accessible in Exchange Online so I cannot create a dynamic distribution group. I am able to create a mail-enabled security group but the membership cannot be dynamic. And any dynamic group I create can't be mail-enabled unless it's a unified group but for the purposes we need the groups for Unified groups aren't appropriate.…
492 votesThank you for your feedback! We have heard you and are considering future implementation options. There is no timeline yet for implementation. If this feature matters to you, keep voting as it will help us prioritize.
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