Authenticating with Azure Active Directory on powershell
The cmdlet Connect-AzureAD establishes connection to ADD domian, after we login successed a confirmation will display:
PS C:\windows\system32> connect-azuread
Account Environment Tenant
------- ----------- ------
[email protected] AzureCloud xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
The connection can be vaildated with this cmdlet Get-AzureADDomain, if the user is connected to AAD domain, where he has management privileges - the information about the domain will be displayed:
PS C:\windows\system32> get-azureaddomain
Name AvailabilityStatus AuthenticationType
---- ------------------ ------------------
hcl.com Managed
msgamestudios.com Managed
foobar.local Managed
multimap.com Managed
skypestaytogether.com Managed
insightsquarterly.com.au Managed
calanit.onmicrosoft.com Federated
msft.ccsctp.net Managed
ruffiangames.com Managed
xn--m1bg0b0byewac1j8b.com Managed
VoicesforInnovation.org Managed
shaanximic.com Managed
www.yunnanmic.com Managed
wsmbela.pss.com Managed
fornax.off Managed
api.staging.yammer.com Managed
codenauts.net Managed
acompli.com Managed
testdomains.co Managed
microsoft.hr Managed
Bayportali.mmdservice.com Managed
contoso.com Managed
api.swrepository.com Managed
Equivio.com Managed
sunshine.am Managed
microsoftaffiliates.com Managed
If user has no admin privileges, we will get the error same as you.
Get-AzureADDomain : Error occurred while executing GetDomains
Code: Authentication_Unauthorized
Message: User was not found
HttpStatusCode: Forbidden
The reason is that, the cmdlet GetAzureADDomian has no tenant specified, so the connection was established to a domian, where user has no admin privileges.
To ensure connection to expected AAD domian, the tenant ID must specified in call to Connect-AzureAD cmdlet.
PS C:\windows\system32> Connect-AzureAD -TenantId
As already answered here, please use:
PS C:\windows\system32> Connect-AzureAD -TenantId {YOUR_TENANT_ID}
Example:
PS C:\windows\system32> Connect-AzureAD -TenantId ce1af0ab-ae35-4f60-8f2d-944444444444
It's a common mistake to use TenantId we get when executing Connect-AzureAd, like following:
But use the TenantId from Azure Portal --> Azure Active Directory --> Properties --> Directory Id.
The Directory Id = TenantId.