Microsoft Entra ID management tools

- [Instructor] So now that we've discussed a little bit about Microsoft Entra ID and how it's positioned within the ecosystem of Azure products, as well as other products within the Microsoft Entra suite of solutions, let's take a look at how we manage and how we configure this Entra ID solution. So what I have open here is the Microsoft Entra Admin Center. The Microsoft Entra Admin Center is the primary tool you will be using to manage Microsoft Entra ID and other features. I can access the Microsoft Entra Admin Center by entering entra.microsoft.com, and then I'll have to sign in using my credentials that have administrative privileges over the intra ID subscription or the Entra ID tenant. Here I'm signed in with my user account that is a Entra ID user account and that has specific privileges within this environment. And you'll note, of course, that as soon as you enter the Enter Admin Center, you will see that Azure AD is now Microsoft Entra ID. We are discussing a lot about Microsoft Entra ID in this course, but I will have to refer to a lot of the previous terminology of Azure AD because some of the functionalities and products have not yet been renamed, and some of the connections that we'll be using even in this video have not been renamed yet to Microsoft Entra ID. So within the Microsoft Entra Admin Center, I'll be able to access most of the management that I need to do. I can go into Identity and that's where I will perform most of the tasks related to ID or the Microsoft Entra ID. Here, I'll be able to create users, manage users, create groups, manage groups, create devices, manage devices, applications, manage my authorizations and my permissions related to my ID tenant, as well as manage my domain names and all of the other configurations related to the Entra ID. For example, here, if I go under users, I can click on all users and see all of the users that have permissions to access resources through this authorization of my Entra ID. Now, this is a web-based tool, this is a portal. In the previous version of the Azure AD Admin Center, I had a button in my top bar to access the Azure Cloud Shell. The Azure Cloud Shell is essentially the Azure version or the online version of PowerShell to access my subscription and manage my subscription. Now, I don't have the button here anymore, but I can still manage my Entra ID through the Azure Clouds shell by accessing it through the Azure portal. So if I actually open up another browser window and go to the Azure portal, I will see that button. I have this window over here and I have this button right here, the Cloud Shell button at the top of my Azure portal. Remember, you access the Azure portal by going to portal.azure.com. When I click on this button, it will authenticate me and give me the ability to access my entire Azure subscription resources, including the Entra ID using, either PowerShell or Bash. So either the Azure Cloud Shell or the Azure CLI. So to access my subscription, I can do things like get-aztenant and it will access all of the tenants in my Azure subscription. So I have here multiple Entra ID tenants. The one that I'm managing here is called Netlogon, and I have here all the multiple domain names that are associated with my Netlogon tenant. Again, I can perform multiple tasks here such as listing all of my user accounts. So here I've just typed CLS in my screen to clear my clouds shell search and I can type commands such as get-azaduser to get the list of all of my user accounts. Or if I want the properties only for a specific user account, I can specify the name of my user. Now, if I just type get-azaduser and press Enter, all of the user accounts in my tenant are listed. So again, managing your Entra ID tenant can be done either through the Microsoft Entra Admin Center using this web-based portal, or using a command tool such as the Azure Cloud Shell or the Azure CLI, which you can still access, though you have to access them through the Azure portal. Of course, you can always use Windows PowerShell directly from your machine to connect to the tenant as well.