Musings of a Data professional

Stuart Moore

Granting Azure Roles to Users or groups without a SignInName in Azure AD

Whilst sorting some permissions out on a resource group I stumbled across an issue with assigning them to a group. We have a replicate On Premise and Azure Active Directory solution in place. In the On Premise AD not all groups are Distribution groups so don’t have a ‘group1@contoso.com’ sign in. This causes a problem when trying to assign a role in the usual PowerShell way:

New-AzureRmRoleAssignment -SignInName 'group1@contoso.com' -RoleDefinitionName Contributor -ResourceGroupName MyRg

or

New-AzureRmRoleAssignment -SignInName 'group1' -RoleDefinitionName Contributor -ResourceGroupName MyRg

both return a nice red error message:

'New-AzureRmRoleAssignment : The provided information does not map to an AD object id.
At line:1 char:1
+ New-AzureRmRoleAssignment -SignInName group1@contoso.com -RoleD ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : CloseError: (:) [New-AzureRmRoleAssignment], KeyNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Resources.NewAzureRoleAssignmentCommand'

 

The workaround for this is to use the ObjectID parameter, and to grab the ObjectId like this:

$objectid = (Get-AzureRmADGroup -DisplayName "Our Developers").Id
New-AzureRmRoleAssignment -ObjectId $objectid -RoleDefinitionName Contributor -ResourceGroupName MyRg

Just another one of those little oddities that crop up when you’ve got a long established infrastructure that doesn’t quite fit the modern templates 😉

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2 Comments

  1. Cris

    this solved my issue! actually, when i run this it says the role has been granted already which i did via the portal. thanks.

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