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AZURE ACTIVE DIRECTORY (AZURE AD) or MICROSOFT ENTRA ID

ENTRA ID is the foundation to the entire cloud. it helps you protect all your identities and secure your network access everywhere. All your identities gets managed by Entra id Admin center, its Microsoft identity solution. your Entra id environment is called a tenant, its like you renting a place you’re living. Entra id is a globally load balanced SAS service with endpoints across all of azure. To create a user account on There are several kinds of user account, there is on you create in the portal known as cloud native users and we also have synced users and also guest users which is also called B2B AND B2C accounts. So when you create account you have to choose if that should be cloud native or if you want to invite a guest. here is a step by step guide on how to manage users and groups in active directory;
HOW TO CREATE NEW USER ACCOUNT IN MICROSOFT ENTRA ID

  1. Go to Entra.microsoft.com

  2. Click on " NEW USERS" in the navigation menu, Click on NEW USER OR INVITE EXTERNAL USER if you are inviting a user, then fill in necessary information!
    First we need to access Microsoft entra Admin center using the URL https://entra.microsoft.com, on the home page expand users and click on
    You can manually also add users through the Microsoft Entra Admin center, this is the easiest way to add users. Click on new user , you will see two options, create a new user or invite an external user.

Image description , go with the default selection, create new user. fill in the necessary info , user principal name is the login name which user used to sign in to Microsoft Entra, select a domain from the menu after @symbol, i used Administrator@nblessing44@gmail.onmicrosoft.com
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fill in other details mail, nickname, provide a password, change the settings. next select properties and fill in the identity and Job info,
Image description , also configure the group and administrative unit too., select review + create button. review the entered detail and select create to create this user account with the given details. here are the ones i successfully created.
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To modify the user account settings, click on user account , click on edit properties, here you can edit identity, job information, job information, etc.

HOW TO BULK CREATE USERS USING CSV FILE
Microsoft Entra provided a way to manage users in bulk,you can create and delete operations in bulk.

  1. login to entra admin center, sign in as user administrator Navigate to bulk operation , under it you can either bulk create users, bulk invite users or bulk delete users. Image description To bulk create users first download the csv template file

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open the downloaded csv file, add the line for each user you want to create. Modify the template file with the users information, and save the file as

.csvfile go back to microsoft entra Admin center , next is to upload the csv file to microsoft entra id, under bulk create page, select upload csv file and browse to the file. after the file content
are validated, you will see a message that the file is updated successfully.

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