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Integrating Business Central On-premise with Azure AD Security Groups

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We are running a Business Central On-premise solution, that uses Azure AD for user authentication.

After trying to setup Azure AD Security Groups for managing user rights, I've come to the understanding that this might not be possible.

All guides that I've seen only mention how to connect the cloud version of Business Central to Azure AD Security Groups, which appears to work seamlessly.

Am I right in thinking that integrating Business Central On-premise with Azure AD Security Groups is not possible at this point in time?

WIth User Groups being marked for obsoletion, is this integration planned for a future release?

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Jakob Theiner 44 on at

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Integrating Business Central On-premise with Azure AD Security Groups

We have the exact same issue.

We have a partner hosting the Business Central Solution for our customers. Therefore we can't even use Windows Authentication if we wanted to (the services are publicly available, having it available without MFA is absolutely not an option and as far as I know Entra ID is the only way to get MFA).

Why can't we use Entra ID user groups from an Entra ID authenticated server instance? This doesn't make any sense to me.

We have customers with 200+ users and we currently have to tell them it's not possible to use user groups, that's a real bummer in projects and definitely not suitable for an ERP system :/

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Jakob
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Integrating Business Central On-premise with Azure AD Security Groups

Hello Yun, thanks for your answer.

Our problem is that we are authenticating against Azure AD, which means that the IsWindowsAuthentication flag in the Security Group module is false. Therefore we only get the option to connect to a Azure AD Security Group.

The lookup page is then empty, because it can't find any Azure AD Security Groups.

Because of this I was wondering if our setup, with Azure AD authentication in Business Central On-premise will not work with security groups.
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YUN ZHU 79,097 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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Integrating Business Central On-premise with Azure AD Security Groups

Hi, here are the instructions from Microsoft, which hopefully will give you some hints.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/ui-security-groups?wt.mc_id=DX-MVP-5004336

Thanks.

ZHU