Creating users in Azure AD

We will begin by creating a couple of users in our Azure AD tenant from the Azure portal. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the Azure portal by going to https://portal.azure.com.
  2. In the left menu, select Azure Active Directory.
  3. In the Overview blade of Azure AD, in the left menu, select Users All users. Select + New user from the top menu, as follows:

Creating a new user
  1. Next, we are going to create three users. Add the following values, which can be seen in the following screenshot:
    • Name: PacktUser1.
    • Username: The username is the identifier that the user enters to sign in to Azure AD. Use the domain name that has been configured for you and add this to the end of the username. In my case, this is [email protected].
    • Profile: Here, you can create a new profile for your user. Add the First nameLast nameJob title, and Department boxes. After that, click Create, as follows:

Creating a profile for your user
    • Group: You can also add your user to a group from here. We are going to do this in the next section, so you can skip this part for now.
    • Roles: Here, you can assign the user to an RBAC role. Select Directory readers from the list, as follows: 

Selecting a directory role
  1. Click Select and then Create.
  2. Repeat these steps and create PackUser2 and PacktUser3.

Now that we have created a couple of users in our Azure AD tenant, we can add them to a group in Azure AD.

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