📝Tenant Setup Guide

Tenant Creation and Configuration: A Practical Walkthrough

Creation and Configuration

Sign in to your host tenant and navigate to 'Tenants'. Select 'Create new tenant' and enter the required information for the new tenant. Make sure to securely store the admin password in a safe location.

Create a new tenant

Then, access your new tenant by navigating to the new 'tenant URL' and log in using your admin user credentials.

Log in to new Tenant

Navigate to Administration -> Settings -> Azure Configurations. Provide the necessary information to ensure your tenant has everything it requires.

Azure Configurations

Azure Configurations walkthrough

Inherit host settings: All Azure configurations within your hosting tenant will be applied to the tenant.

Inherit host settings

Azure Tenant ID: Incorporating the Azure Tenant ID into your settings enables Azure AD users to authenticate within your organization. If left empty, your tenant will default to using the common endpoint for login purposes.

Benefits of organizational Azure Tenant ID, using your organization endpoint for authentication as an AD user grants greater control over tenant access and enables the invitation of external AD users to authenticate within your organization.

https://www.whatismytenantid.com/

Azure Tenant ID

Internal Domains: Serves to differentiate between internal and external users. This is used when the tenant either uses the common endpoint for authentication or when Microsoft Graph Service Principal hasn't been configured.

Internal Domains

Microsoft Graph Service Principal

Adding your own Graph API application enables tenant to add extneral Azure AD users to your Microsoft Entra ID environment and tenant.

Microsoft Graph API

Power BI Service Principal

Using Power BI Service Principal allows you to embed reports for AD users without Power BI Pro licenses and facilitates report sharing via User Pass and Mobile ID. Additionally, certain features mandate an active Service Principal. Click here for further details on features.

If the checkbox 'Only use Service Principal to manage reports and workspaces in the tenant' is selected, it signifies that the tenant will exclusively manage reports and workspaces through the Service Principal. Consequently, Azure AD will be unable to view the workspaces accessible to it.

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