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Overview

Active Roles is an administrative platform that facilitates administration and provisioning for Active Directory, Exchange, and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) in a hybrid environment. Active Roles enables the organization to manage through the web interface and to develop a flexible administrative structure that suits their needs, while ensuring secure delegation of tasks, reduced workloads, and lower costs.

Active Roles enables synchronization of the on-premises Active Directory objects to the Azure AD.

This guide is designed for individuals responsible for performing administrative tasks using the Active Roles web interface for Azure Active Directory and Office 365. The document includes instructions to help delegated administrators and help-desk operators perform day-today Azure AD administrative activities.

Config ARS to Manage Hybrid AD Objects

Configuring Active Roles to Manage Hybrid AD Objects

When a user signs up for a Microsoft cloud service such as Azure Active Directory, details about the user’s organization and the organization’s Internet domain name registration are provided to Microsoft. This information is then used to create a new Azure AD instance for the organization. The same directory is used to authenticate sign in attempts when you subscribe to multiple Microsoft cloud services.

The Azure AD instance of the organization, also called the Azure AD tenant, stores the users, groups, applications, and other information pertaining to an organization and its security. To access the Azure AD tenant, we need an application that is registered with the tenant. Active Roles uses this application, also called the Azure AD application, to communicate to Azure AD tenant after providing the required consent.

The Active Roles Web Interface and Management Shell can be used to perform the Azure AD configuration tasks. The new feature in Active Roles enables you to add or modify existing tenants and applications to the management scope through the web interface and Management Shell.

The following section guides you through the Active Roles web interface and Management Shell to configure Azure AD tenants and applications and synchronize existing AD objects to Azure AD.

• Configuring Active Roles to manage Hybrid AD using Web Interface
• Configuring Active Roles to manage Hybrid AD using Management Shell
• Active Roles Configuration steps to manage Hybrid AD objects
• Active Roles Configuration to synchronize existing AD objects to Azure AD

Config ARS using WI to Manage Hybrid AD Objects

Configuring Active Roles to manage Hybrid AD using Web Interface

Active Roles Web interface enables you to perform the following configuration tasks to manage Hybrid AD:

• Add an Azure AD tenant
• View or modify the Azure AD tenant properties
• View the Domains associated to an Azure AD tenant
• Delete an Azure AD tenant
• Add an Azure AD Application
• View the Azure AD Application properties
• Provide Administrator Consent for Azure AD application to access Active Directory
• Delete an Azure AD Application

Add an Azure AD tenant

You can use the Active Roles Web Interface to add an Azure AD tenant.

To add an Azure AD tenant

1. On the Active Roles Web interface Navigation bar, click Directory Management.
2. On the Views tab in the Browse pane, click Azure Configuration.
3. In the Command pane, click Add Azure Tenant.
4. In the General properties Add Azure Tenant window, enter the following details:

• Azure Tenant Name: Enter the name of the Azure AD tenant
• Azure Tenant ID: Enter the Azure AD tenant ID obtained from the default tenant created after subscribing for Microsoft Azure.

• Azure Admin User Name: Enter the administrative user name of Azure AD.
• Azure Admin User Password: Enter the password provided for the administrative user.
• Confirm Password: Re-enter the password provided for the administrative user.
• Azure Tenant Description: Enter the required description for the Azure AD tenant.

5. Click Next.

   The Azure AD Tenant Type properties wizard is displayed with the following types of domains:

   • Non Fedaerated Domain
   • Federated Domain
   • Synchronized Identity Domain

6. Select the appropriate domain type and click Finish.

The newly added Azure AD tenant is displayed in the Azure Tenants list.