Managing cloud-only Azure contacts
Active Roles provides the facility to perform administrative tasks such as create, read, update, and delete Azure contact on cloud through web interface. You can also perform other operations such as viewing and modifying the Azure cloud-only contact, view change history, and other operations related to Azure cloud-only contacts.
NOTE: When creating a new cloud-only Azure contact or updating an existing one, it may take up to 15 minutes for the changes to appear on the Active Roles Web Interface. This is due to a replication delay present between PowerShell and the Microsoft Graph API.
View cloud only Azure contacts
View cloud only Azure contacts
You can use the Active Roles Web Interface to view the cloud only Azure contacts.
To view the cloud only Azure contacts
- On the Active Roles Web interface Navigation bar, click Directory Management.
- On the Views tab in the Browse pane, click | Azure |<Azure tenant> |Azure Contacts.
NOTE: Active Roles lists the available cloud-only Azure Users, Azure Guest Users, and Azure Contacts on the Active Roles Web Interface with the following restrictions:
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Active Roles can initially list 999 items.
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The items listed in the list have a sliding expiry of 8 hours, after which the objects that have not been accessed will be flushed.
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Whenever you perform a search in the list, Active Roles will always fetch the list of objects from Azure to update the cache.
Create new cloud only Azure contacts
You can use the Active Roles Web Interface to create and enable new cloud only Azure contacts.
To create a new cloud only Azure contact
- On the Active Roles Web interface Navigation bar, click Directory Management.
- On the Views tab in the Browse pane, click Azure |<Azure tenant> |Azure Contacts.
The Azure Contacts page is displayed and lists the Azure cloud only contacts available in Azure.
- In the Command pane, under Azure Contacts, click New Contact.
- In the New Contact window, on the General tab, enter the appropriate text in the Name, Alias, and Description fields.
- Click Finish.
The Azure Contacts page displays the newly added Azure contact.
NOTE: When creating a new cloud-only Azure contact or updating an existing one, it may take up to 15 minutes for the changes to appear on the Active Roles Web Interface. This is due to a replication delay present between PowerShell and the Microsoft Graph API.
View or modify Azure contacts properties
For an existing Azure cloud only contact, you can use the Active Roles Web Interface to view or modify the properties.
To view or modify the Azure contacts properties
- On the Active Roles Web interface Navigation bar, click Directory Management.
- On the Views tab in the Browse pane, click | Azure |<Azure tenant> |Azure Contacts.
The Azure contacts page is displayed and lists the Azure contacts available in Azure.
- Select the Azure contact for which you want to view or modify the properties.
- In the Command pane, click Azure properties.
The Azure Properties wizard for the contact is displayed.
- Use the tabs in the Azure Properties wizard to view or modify properties of the Azure cloud only contact.
- After setting all the required properties, click Save.
NOTE: When creating a new cloud-only Azure contact or updating an existing one, it may take up to 15 minutes for the changes to appear on the Active Roles Web Interface. This is due to a replication delay present between PowerShell and the Microsoft Graph API.