User and group management
Efficiently manage user identities and groups with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).
What is user and group management?
Managing users and groups is fundamental to identity and access management. At its core, user and group management consists of creating and updating identities, and setting rules for the resources each user identity can access. It also includes assigning sets of users to groups for efficient management.
Manage users and groups in Azure AD
User and group management in Azure AD
Azure AD provides user management services for IT administrators, including assigning licenses, delegating permissions, and assigning access to apps.
Top user and group management tasks
Learn about the relationship between user identity management tasks in terms of groups, licenses, deployed enterprise apps, and administrator roles.
Group-based licensing
Assign Microsoft service licensing at a group level for large-scale management and automation based on organization changes.
App management and resource access
Use groups to more efficiently manage access to your cloud-based apps, on-premises apps, and resources such as SharePoint site membership.
Dynamic group assignment
Automate access compliance with custom-built rules that determine group membership based on user properties, such as job function.
Take a deep dive into Azure AD user management
Azure AD is your identity control plane in the cloud. Manage user and group access to software as a service (SaaS) apps, custom apps, and on-premises apps.