Azure Active Directory Connection

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What information gets synced in Azure -Users

  • Primary Email(not updatable, is only synced upon user's first sync)
  • Other Email addresses
  • Name
  • Last Name
  • Username
  • SIS ID
  • Fax Number (will be synced through if their is an existing value in a Cloudwork User's Custom Attribute)
  • Department (will be synced through if their is an existing value in a Cloudwork User's Custom Attribute)
  • Business Phones (will be synced through if their is an existing value in a Cloudwork User's Custom Attribute)
  • Number of groups the synced user is apart of

What information gets synced in Azure -Groups

  • Group Friendly Name
  • Description
  • Number of users
  • Number of teachers
  • list of teachers
  • list of members

What conditions need to be met before a group can be synced into Azure

Groups will be synced as long as:

  • In the Cloudwork Dashboard>External Domains>Azure Active Directory>domain>Domain settings>Maintain Groups is set to yes
  • In Cloudwork Dashboard>Groups>group you wanted synced to Azure>Edit group>Friendly Name
    Friendly Name has no special characters in its name
    In Group Types, Synced to Azure is selected

Instructions for setting up Azure Active Directory Connection

Head to Azure Active Directory dashboard, click on Manage Azure Active Directory
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Come to the tenant and click on App registration
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Click on New registration
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Name the application and register.

On the registered app page, click on Certificates and secrets
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Add a new secret by clicking New Client Secret and save the secret value for future use.
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Click on API permissions
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Click Add a permission and select Microsoft Graph API
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Add the following permissions separately:
Delegated permissions

  • Application.Read.All
  • Application.ReadWrite.All
  • Directory.AccessAsUser.All
  • Directory.Read.All
  • Directory.ReadWrite.All
  • Domain.Read.All
  • Domain.ReadWrite.All
  • Group.Read.All
  • Group.ReadWrite.All
  • GroupMember.Read.All
  • GroupMember.ReadWrite.All
  • User.ManageIdentities.All
  • User.Read
  • User.Read.All
  • User.ReadBasic.All
  • User.ReadWrite
  • User.ReadWrite.All


Application permissions

  • Application.Read.All
  • Application.ReadWrite.All
  • Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy
  • Directory.Read.All
  • Directory.ReadWrite.All
  • Domain.Read.All
  • Domain.ReadWrite.All
  • Group.Create
  • Group.Read.All
  • Group.ReadWrite.All
  • GroupMember.Read.All
  • GroupMember.ReadWrite.All
  • User.ManageIdentities.All
  • User.Read.All
  • User.ReadWrite.All

Grant admin consent by clicking Grant admin consent for Studentnet
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Permission granted
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Head to Cloudwork dashboard>External Domains>Azure Active Directory>Add new
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  • App Object ID: Object Id for the registered app
  • Client Id: Application Id for the registered app
  • Tenant Id: Tenant Id
  • Client secret: secret value saved before

If the secret is going to expire, there will be a warning message with the days to expire
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To renew the secret, head to Home > App registration
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Click on to the app used in Cloudwork, and head to Certificates & secrets, remove the expired secret and add a new secret, then paste the secret to Cloudwork
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