Azure Management Groups
Azure Management Groups provide a way to efficiently manage access, policies, and compliance across an enterprise through a hierarchy made up of management groups and subscriptions. Using the Azure portal, PowerShell, CLI, or the Rest API, customers are able to build a flexible structure for unified policy and access management.
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Allow custom RBAC Definitions at the Management Group Level
The customer I currently work with has several custom roles that are currently maintained in a central subscription. This has become quite burdensome as every new subscription which needs the role assigned needed to have the Role.AssignableScopes attribute appended with the custom role. We would like to centrally manage these, using management groups similar to the way we manage Policy applied over several subscriptions.
201 votesCustom RBAC is supporting the management groups scope with a few limitations. The MG team and Identity teams are working on removing these limitations but no timeline is available yet.
To keep updated please see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/management-groups/overview#custom-rbac-role-definition-and-assignment
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Allow for the default management group in the tenant be custom selected
When using Azure Management Groups, any new management group or subscription that is created is made a default child of the Root management group.
This feature would allow a admin with access to the root management group to select different default group. This group will then act as the landing area for all new management groups and subscriptions that are not created with a parent already selected.
13 votesWe are testing a feature that will allow a user with new hierarchy setting permissions on the root MG to be able to set a Default MG. This Default MG will be the parent on all Subscriptions that would currently go under the Root MG.
Planning to be rolled out by end of March 2020
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Splitting management group rights from subscription rights
I would like to give an AD group 'Owner' rights on subscriptions below a management group without giving them also the 'owner' rights on the management group itself, as they should only administer subscriptions and not management groups (which is done by another group of admins), which doesn't seem to be possible right now?
Is this something we can use the 'Deny assignments' for in the future? (as in assigning them the 'owner' role, and denying them the 'management group contributor' role for example?
9 votesCurrently this is not possible as there are no RBAC roles that focus only on subscriptions write capabilities. We created a Management Group Contributor role so that certain users can only have write on the MG scope, but not one focused on subscriptions. This is something we can look at doing.
We are working on Custom RBAC support for management group which will allow you to create your own role with subscription/write.
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Custom Role : 'DataActions' is Not Supported for a new role definition at management group level.
We are unable to create a Custom Role with DataActions in it. e.g storage account
DataAction
Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/blobServices/containers/blobs/add/action
Returns the result of adding blob contentSee the Operations Page
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/resource-provider-operations7 votesAt this time it is a limitation that the Identity team has and is being worked on in the 1H of 2020.
We are tracking the work and will update this item + our Docs page when it has been resolved.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/management-groups/overview#limitations
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Set resource creation limits by user/group
In order to control costs, the Service Administrator should be able to setup quota/limits on resources created by users/groups, e.g. max 10 Vms.
6 votesThanks for the valid suggestion. Your feedback is now open for the user community to upvote & comment on. This allows us to effectively prioritize your request against our existing feature backlog and also gives us insight into the potential impact of implementing the suggested feature.
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Prevent Azure Move from circumventing destination policy restrictions
Currently, we can circumvent Azure Policy location restrictions by creating the resource in a subscription where the policy is not applied, and then moving the resource to the locked down subscription.
This creates a hole in our recommended governance and security policies, please address.
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Block inheritance
Need ability to block inheritance at Management Group level. This is keep access set at root from flowing down within special sensitive environments.
4 votesAt this time we are not planning on introducing and “non-inheriting” permissions or capabilities.
I am going to leave this item marked as unplanned so that voting can still happen on the request.
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One-page tree view of Management groups and subscriptions in the Portal
This would help visualize your setup, making it easier to spot groups and subscriptions that have been placed wrong.
If the page was exportable it could also be used as documentation, so you do not have to use Visio, etc. to document it, yourself.4 votesThis view is planned and being designed. There are some dependences we are waiting on prior to having this capability.
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Prevent users from creating management groups in the tenant root
Right now anyone can create management groups in the tenant root.
We want to limit the creation of management groups at root level to a set of designated admins.
We have defined a strict group hierarchy and want to block users from adding new groups.When viewing the contents of the root management group, an extra column with the owner should be shown so users know who to contact if they want to add a management group somewhere in the hierarchy.
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Ability to set hard spend limits on a Subscription via management Group
It would be good to be able to set a spending limit on a Management group that all subscriptions inherit when this limit is reached the subscription is disabled.
2 votesWe are in discussions with the cost management team to see if this capability can be done and when. Nothing is planned at this time.
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Need more than 6 levels of depth to Hierarchy
Large organization with complex RBAC model needs ability for Management Groups to go more than 6 levels deep. There is no ideal number, but perhaps 10-15 would get us the flexibility we need?
2 votesAt this time we do not have plans to increase the hierarchy depth past 6 levels.
If we receive large volume of feedback on this from customers we will re-evaluate.
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New-AzureRMSubscription missing argument to set management group scope
If I create a new Subscription using New-AzureRMSubscription it is always created at Root Scope, seems there is missing an arguement for management group scope.
Otherwise i need to additionally execute New-AzManagementGroupSubscription... and this command, as far as i can tell will require the user executing it too be both Contributor of the management group object and owner of the subscription object.
The 'New Subscription' owner and 'Target Management Group' owner are different identities in my scenario.
Added to github by alexevansigg 5/16/19
2 votesThe Subscription Create API (version 2019-10-01-prevbiew) has been updated to include a management group ID of the parent parameter. Using this you can select the MG parent at sub create.
Now that the API has been created, the subscriptions team will be in talks with the powershell team to get the modulus updated.
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Restrict Account and Service Admin rights for cancelling a subscription
I believe that my request or idea is similar to the the topic "Splitting management group rights from subscription rights".
I understand that an user with the role of Account and/or Service Admin can cancel or transfer an Azure subscription. This action can cause a business continuity impact and I want to restrict this capability under the "Four Eyes Principle" or "Segregation of Duties". Is it possible? Currently I think that this feature is not available, thus making the entire designed RBAC model at the lower scopes potentially useless.
2 votesThanks for the feedback. Account / Service Admins are classic administration roles that are outside of the ARM RBAC Model. They have equivalent RBAC roles like “Owner”. Management Groups are ARM Resources which means they do not look or govern the classic roles.
While we have no plans to support governing classic roles, I will keep this item open as unplanned.
Learn more about Classic Roles: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/rbac-and-directory-admin-roles#classic-subscription-administrator-roles
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Support direct inclusion of resource groups
Allow grouping together resource groups from multiple subscriptions and applying RBAC to them.
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Allow a subscription to be part of more than one Management Group.
Allow a subscription to be part of more than one Management Group.
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Enable ARMs Template Deployment at Management Group level with Azure DevOps
Currently, Azure DevOps only allows Subscription level Azure Resource Group (ARMs) Deployment. If you have a scenario in which your Template contains linked Templates to create resources into other subscriptions, Azure DevOps is not able to handle it. This is needed in scenarios such as Hub And Spoke Pattern with Multi-Subscriptions. interestingly, Service Connections can be defined at Management group level, but the Resource Template deployment is lacking this feature. This is a big miss in DevOps pipeline, or maybe I'm missing something.
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AzManagementGroupSubscription needs Get/Delete verbs
Description of the new feature
Az.Resource currently implements a NEW verb for adding a sub to an MG. The corresponding GET/DELETE verbs have not been implemented.Get
The azManagementGroup stuff allow for retrieving a tree of your MG and subs. Finding where a Sub in the tree is currently has no native code. You have to retrieve the entire tree and recursively search for where the sub is assigned.Delete
Currently the only way to remove a Sub from an MG is to re-parent it to its new location or the "Tenant Root Group" MG. Since once MG's are turned…1 vote -
Allow a subscription to be part of more than one Management Group.
Allow a subscription to be part of more than one Management Group.
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