Page Comparison

If your organization integrates applications with Azure AD, you can manage those applications in EmpowerID. This includes onboarding applications, assigning users to application roles, adding app roles to applications, editing applications, and deleting applications. In this article, we demonstrate how to add an app role to an Azure application.

Azure Application App Roles represent permissions that can be assigned to users, groups, or other applications in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). They are defined in the manifest of an Azure AD application and allow different roles to have different levels of access within the application.

Creating and assigning App Roles is typically done for the following reasons:

1. Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): RBAC is a strategy for managing resource access based on a user's organizational role. App Roles allow you to implement RBAC by defining roles with certain permissions and assigning these roles to users, groups, or service principals.

2. Fine-Grained Permissions: You might want to create App Roles to enforce fine-grained permissions within your application. For example, you could create roles such as "Admin,” "User,” and "ReadOnly,” each with different permissions, to ensure users can only perform actions that their role allows.

3. Secure API Access: If your application exposes APIs, you might want to secure them by allowing only applications with certain roles to access them. For example, you could define an App Role in your API app's manifest, then assign that role to a client app, granting the client app the ability to call the API.

4. Organizational Structure: If your organization has a complex structure with various teams and departments needing different access levels, App Roles can help manage this complexity. By creating roles reflecting these organizational structures, you can ensure users have the correct access based on their responsibilities.

To create Azure App App Roles, the CreateAzureAppAppRole workflow is utilized. This workflow provides a range of configurable parameters, which allows you to modify the displayed fields when generating client secrets.

In the following sections of this article, we will walk you through tailoring the workflow parameters to suit your environment. Subsequently, we will guide you on creating an App Role for an application integrated with your Azure AD tenant.

Step 1 – Configure workflow parameters

The workflow for creating Azure application app roles is CreateAzureAppAppRole. The workflow has several parameters that affect field values. These parameters are listed in the below table. In this example, you set the DefaultAzureTenantID parameter to the Azure tenant with the applications for which you want to create secrets.

To configure workflow parameters for your needs, do the following:

1. On the navbar, expand Low Code / No Code Workflow and select Low Code Workflows.

2. Select the Workflow tab and search for Create Azure App Client Secret.

3. Click the Display Name for the workflow.
   

   Image Added

4. Expand the Request Workflow Parameters accordion on the Workflow Details page for the workflow and click the edit button for the DefaultAzureTenantID parameter.
   

   Image Added

5. Enter the Azure Tenant ID in the Value field and click Save.

6. Configure any other settings as needed.

Step 2 – Add an app role to an Azure application

1. Navigate to the Resource Admin application portal for your environment.

2. Select Applications from the dropdown menu and search for the application you want to assign an Azure AD role.

3. Click the Friendly Name link for the application.
   

   Image RemovedImage Added

    

4. Select Azure Application Roles on the application menu, expand Actions, and then click Create Azure Application Role.
   

   Image RemovedImage Added

    
   This initiates the Create Azure App App Role workflow with the selected application as the target and directs you to the App Role Details form.
   

   Image RemovedImage Added

5. Fill in the form fields with the appropriate information for your app role.
   

   Insert excerpt
   IL:Azure Snippets IL:Azure Snippets name AppRoleFields nopanel true

6. Click Next.

7. Review the summary information and then click Submit.

Step 3 – Verify the application role in Azure

1. In Azure, navigate to Azure AD > App registrations.

2. Select All applications and search for the target application.

3. Click the Display Name link for the application.
   

   

4. Under Manage, click App Roles.
   
   You should see the app role you created for the application.
   

   

...

Image Modified