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Manage Users and Groups in Microsoft Entra ID

You are an identity administrator at Globomantics, tasked with strengthening the company’s identity and access management (IAM) posture in Microsoft Entra ID. Your work focuses on creating cloud-only users, setting usage locations for compliance and licensing accuracy, organizing users into security groups, and validating access design using realistic scenarios. Completing this lab will help you standardize identity data, improve governance, and prepare for scalable, role-aligned access in Azure.

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Level
Intermediate
Last updated
Oct 21, 2025
Duration
45m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Create Cloud-Only Users with Usage Locations

    Create two new cloud-only user accounts and set the usage locations

  2. Challenge

    Create Security Groups and Add Members

    Create a security group aligned to an engineering function and add the relevant users to enable group-based management and future access assignment.

  3. Challenge

    Review Group Membership

    Validate current group membership to ensure users are assigned correctly.

  4. Challenge

    Simulate Access Assignment with Nested Groups

    Model a role-like access pattern by creating a security group and nesting the engineering group within it to preview effective membership.

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