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articles/active-directory/develop/howto-create-service-principal-portal.md

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You've created your Azure AD application and service principal.
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## Assign the application to a role
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## Assign a role to the application
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To access resources in your subscription, you must assign the application to a role. Decide which role offers the right permissions for the application. To learn about the available roles, see [RBAC: Built in Roles](../../role-based-access-control/built-in-roles.md).
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To access resources in your subscription, you must assign a role to the application. Decide which role offers the right permissions for the application. To learn about the available roles, see [RBAC: Built in Roles](../../role-based-access-control/built-in-roles.md).
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You can set the scope at the level of the subscription, resource group, or resource. Permissions are inherited to lower levels of scope. For example, adding an application to the Reader role for a resource group means it can read the resource group and any resources it contains.
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![Select the role to assign to the application](./media/howto-create-service-principal-portal/select-role.png)
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1. Select **Save** to finish assigning the role. You see your application in the list of users assigned to a role for that scope.
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1. Select **Save** to finish assigning the role. You see your application in the list of users with a role for that scope.
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Your service principal is set up. You can start using it to run your scripts or apps. The next section shows how to get values that are needed when signing in programmatically.
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1. Select **Client secrets -> New client secret**.
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1. Provide a description of the secret, and a duration. When done, select **Add**.
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After saving the client secret, the value of the client secret is displayed. Copy this value because you aren't able to retrieve the key later. You provide the key value with the application ID to sign in as the application. Store the key value where your application can retrieve it.
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After saving the client secret, the value of the client secret is displayed. Copy this value because you won't be able to retrieve the key later. You will provide the key value with the application ID to sign in as the application. Store the key value where your application can retrieve it.
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![Copy the secret value because you can't retrieve this later](./media/howto-create-service-principal-portal/copy-secret.png)
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## Required permissions
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You must have sufficient permissions to register an application with your Azure AD tenant, and assign the application to a role in your Azure subscription.
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You must have sufficient permissions to register an application with your Azure AD tenant, and assign to the application a role in your Azure subscription.
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### Check Azure AD permissions
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1. In the left pane, select **User settings**.
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1. Check the **App registrations** setting. This value can only be set by an administrator. If set to **Yes**, any user in the Azure AD tenant can register an app.
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If the app registrations setting is set to **No**, only users with an administrator role may register these types of applications. See [available roles](../users-groups-roles/directory-assign-admin-roles.md#available-roles) and [role permissions](../users-groups-roles/directory-assign-admin-roles.md#role-permissions) to learn about available administrator roles and the specific permissions in Azure AD that are given to each role. If your account is assigned to the User role, but the app registration setting is limited to admin users, ask your administrator to either assign you to one of the administrator roles that can create and manage all aspects of app registrations, or to enable users to register apps.
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If the app registrations setting is set to **No**, only users with an administrator role may register these types of applications. See [available roles](../users-groups-roles/directory-assign-admin-roles.md#available-roles) and [role permissions](../users-groups-roles/directory-assign-admin-roles.md#role-permissions) to learn about available administrator roles and the specific permissions in Azure AD that are given to each role. If your account is assigned the User role, but the app registration setting is limited to admin users, ask your administrator to either assign you one of the administrator roles that can create and manage all aspects of app registrations, or to enable users to register apps.
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### Check Azure subscription permissions
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In your Azure subscription, your account must have `Microsoft.Authorization/*/Write` access to assign an AD app to a role. This action is granted through the [Owner](../../role-based-access-control/built-in-roles.md#owner) role or [User Access Administrator](../../role-based-access-control/built-in-roles.md#user-access-administrator) role. If your account is assigned to the **Contributor** role, you don't have adequate permission. You receive an error when attempting to assign the service principal to a role.
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In your Azure subscription, your account must have `Microsoft.Authorization/*/Write` access to assign a role to an AD app. This action is granted through the [Owner](../../role-based-access-control/built-in-roles.md#owner) role or [User Access Administrator](../../role-based-access-control/built-in-roles.md#user-access-administrator) role. If your account is assigned the **Contributor** role, you don't have adequate permission. You will receive an error when attempting to assign the service principal a role.
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![Select the subscription you want to create the service principal in](./media/howto-create-service-principal-portal/view-details.png)
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1. Select **Role assignments** to view your assigned roles, and determine if you have adequate permissions to assign an AD app to a role. If not, ask your subscription administrator to add you to User Access Administrator role. In the following image, the user is assigned to the Owner role, which means that user has adequate permissions.
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1. Select **Role assignments** to view your assigned roles, and determine if you have adequate permissions to assign a role to an AD app. If not, ask your subscription administrator to add you to User Access Administrator role. In the following image, the user is assigned the Owner role, which means that user has adequate permissions.
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![This example shows the user is assigned to the Owner role](./media/howto-create-service-principal-portal/view-user-role.png)
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![This example shows the user is assigned the Owner role](./media/howto-create-service-principal-portal/view-user-role.png)
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## Next steps
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