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Business Central Windows Group Permissions with Azure AD Single Sign-On

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Hello,

In a BC17 installation we've implemented the single sign-on with Azure AD, following the steps in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/authenticating-users-with-azure-active-directory?tabs=singletenant%2Cadmintool.

In BC17 the permissions are set in the Windows Group User.

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And the user has no permissions.

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Since the user belongs to the Windows Group it should inherit the Windows Group permissions.

However, when the user tries to login it has a "Access Denied" error. 

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In the MS documentation Windows Groups are not mentioned, so we tried to add the Authentication E-Mail to the Windows Groups, and the following permissions in API Permissions in Azure AD:

  • Group.Read.All 
  • GroupMember.Read.All
  • User.Read

But with no success.

Has anyone been through this?

BR.

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    Marco Mels Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hello,

    It used to work like this.

    1. Add all users with no permissions sets added.

    2. Add the groups with the relevant permissions

    3. Add members to the relevant groups

    The users must however exist, but you do not need to assign permissions.

    Thanks.

  • andrew D Profile Picture
    10 on at

    Did you ever get this solved? I cannot seem to make it work. It's as if it just ignores AD group membership if the user has an AAD auth email assigned - at least on BC19.

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