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Azure AD Tenants and Directories Setup

📖 Scenario: You are setting up Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenants and directories for a company that wants to organize its users and resources securely.

🎯 Goal: Build a simple Azure AD tenant configuration using Azure CLI commands to create a tenant, add a directory, and configure basic settings.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create an Azure AD tenant with a specific name

Add a directory to the tenant

Configure a domain name for the directory

Set a user count limit for the directory

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Companies use Azure AD tenants and directories to organize users and resources securely in the cloud.

💼 Career

Understanding how to create and configure Azure AD tenants and directories is essential for cloud administrators and security engineers.

1

Create an Azure AD tenant

Use the Azure CLI command az ad tenant create --display-name "ContosoTenant" to create an Azure AD tenant named ContosoTenant.

Azure

# Use Azure CLI to create the tenant
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the az ad tenant create command with the --display-name option.

2

Add a directory to the tenant

Add a directory named ContosoDirectory to the tenant using the Azure CLI command az ad directory create --display-name "ContosoDirectory".

Azure

az ad tenant create --display-name "ContosoTenant"
# Add a directory named ContosoDirectory
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use az ad directory create with the --display-name option.

3

Configure a domain name for the directory

Configure the domain name contoso.com for the directory ContosoDirectory using the Azure CLI command az ad domain create --name contoso.com --tenant ContosoDirectory.

Azure

az ad tenant create --display-name "ContosoTenant"
az ad directory create --display-name "ContosoDirectory"
# Configure domain contoso.com for ContosoDirectory
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use az ad domain create with --name and --tenant options.

4

Set a user count limit for the directory

Set the user count limit to 100 for the directory ContosoDirectory using the Azure CLI command az ad directory update --display-name "ContosoDirectory" --user-count-limit 100.

Azure

az ad tenant create --display-name "ContosoTenant"
az ad directory create --display-name "ContosoDirectory"
az ad domain create --name contoso.com --tenant ContosoDirectory
# Set user count limit to 100 for ContosoDirectory
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use az ad directory update with --display-name and --user-count-limit options.