How to restrict access to a set of users/groups in Azure AD

About this article

Our Templafy OpenID Connect Application offered as Enterprise Application in Azure AD Gallery, is, by default, available to all users of the tenant who authenticate successfully. This article is aimed to walk you through the process of restricting access to Templafy to only designated subset of users.  The content of this article is relevant for Client IT and is valid for both Templafy OpenID Connect as well as Templafy SAML2 Application. 

This article contains two main sections: 

• Setup guide
• Assign users and groups to the app

Prerequisite

Setup guide

1. Create the Templafy App by following the steps described in How to set up SSO with Azure AD OpenID
2. Once the Templafy App is created navigate to Enterprise applications- All applications
3. Click Templafy and on the application's Overview page, select Properties from the application’s left-hand navigation menu.
4. Locate the setting User assignment required? and set it to Yes.
5. When this option is set to Yes, users must first be assigned to this application before they can access it.
   
   
   
   6. Select Save to save this configuration change.

Assign users and groups to the app

Once you've configured your app to enable user assignment, you can go ahead and assign users and groups to the app.

1. Select the Users and groups pane in the application’s left-hand navigation menu
   
   
   
   
2. At the top of the Users and groups list, select the Add user button to open the Add Assignment pane.
3. Select the Users selector from the Add Assignment pane. 
   
   
   
   
   Note: A list of users and security groups will be shown along with a textbox to search and locate a certain user or group. This screen allows you to select multiple users and groups in one go.
4. Once you are done selecting the users and groups, press the Select button on bottom to move to the next part. 
5. Press the Assign button on the bottom to finish the assignments of users and groups to the app.
   
   
   
   
6. Confirm that the users and groups you added are showing up in the updated Users and groups list.
   
   

Congratulations! You are all set. Templafy app is now restricted to a certain set of users.

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