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Use Azure Active Directory Authentication for authentication with SQL Database to manage credentials in a single place.

Risk Level

Medium

Address

Security

Compliance Standards

CISAZURE, CBP

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

To remediate the misconfiguration of not having Azure Active Directory (AD) Admin configured, you can follow these steps:

  1. Log in to the Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) using your credentials.
  2. In the left-hand menu, click on “Azure Active Directory”.
  3. Click on “Properties” under the “Manage” section in the left-hand menu.
  4. Scroll down to the “Azure AD admin” section.
  5. Click on “Set Azure AD admin” button.
  6. In the “Set administrator” pane, select the user or group that you want to designate as the Azure AD admin.
  7. Click on the “Select” button.
  8. Click on the “Save” button to save the changes.

Once you have completed the above steps, the Azure AD admin will be configured, and you will have successfully remediated the misconfiguration.

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