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articles/active-directory/develop/howto-restrict-your-app-to-a-set-of-users.md

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#Customer intent: As an application developer, I want to restrict an application that I have registered in Azure AD to a select set of users available in my Azure AD tenant
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#Customer intent: As a tenant administrator, I want to restrict an application that I have registered in Azure AD to a select set of users available in my Azure AD tenant
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# How to: Restrict your Azure AD app to a set of users
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# How to: Restrict your Azure AD app to a set of users in an Azure AD tenant
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Applications registered in an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant are, by default, available to all users of the tenant who authenticate successfully.
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Similarly, in case of a [multi-tenant](howto-convert-app-to-be-multi-tenant.md) app, all users in the Azure AD tenant where this app is provisioned will be able to access this application once they successfully authenticate in their respective tenant.
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Tenant administrators and developers often have requirements where an app must be restricted to a certain set of users. Developers can accomplish the same by using popular authorization patterns like Role Based Access Control (RBAC), but this approach requires a significant amount of work on part of the developer.
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Azure AD allows tenant administrators and developers to restrict an app to a specific set of users or security groups in the tenant.
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Tenant administrators and developers can restrict an app to a specific set of users or security groups in the tenant by using this built-in feature of Azure AD as well.
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## Supported app configurations
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1. Select the application you want to assign a user or security group to from the list.
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1. On the application's **Overview** page, select **Properties** from the application’s left-hand navigation menu.
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1. Locate the setting **User assignment required?** and set it to **Yes**. When this option is set to **Yes**, users must first be assigned to this application before they can access it.
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1. Locate the setting **User assignment required?** and set it to **Yes**. When this option is set to **Yes**, users in the tenant must first be assigned to this application or they won't be able to sign-in to this application.
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1. Select **Save** to save this configuration change.
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### App registration
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1. Create or select the app you want to manage. You need to be **Owner** of this app registration.
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1. On the application's **Overview** page, follow the **Managed application in local directory** link under the essentials in the top of the page. This will take you to the _managed Enterprise Application_ of your app registration.
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1. From the navigation blade on the left, select **Properties**.
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1. Locate the setting **User assignment required?** and set it to **Yes**. When this option is set to **Yes**, users must first be assigned to this application before they can access it.
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1. Locate the setting **User assignment required?** and set it to **Yes**. When this option is set to **Yes**, users in the tenant must first be assigned to this application or they won't be able to sign-in to this application.
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1. Select **Save** to save this configuration change.
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## Assign users and groups to the app
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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.
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1. Once you are done selecting the users and groups, press the **Select** button on bottom to move to the next part.
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1. (Optional) If you have defined App roles in your application, you can use the **Select role** option to assign the selected users and groups to one of the application's roles.
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1. Press the **Assign** button on the bottom to finish the assignments of users and groups to the app.
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1. Confirm that the users and groups you added are showing up in the updated **Users and groups** list.
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## More information
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- [How to: Add app roles in your application](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/develop/howto-add-app-roles-in-azure-ad-apps)
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- [Add authorization using app roles & roles claims to an ASP.NET Core web app](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/active-directory-aspnetcore-webapp-openidconnect-v2/tree/master/5-WebApp-AuthZ/5-1-Roles)
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- [Using Security Groups and Application Roles in your apps (Video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8VUPixLSiM)
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- [Azure Active Directory, now with Group Claims and Application Roles](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Azure-Active-Directory-Identity/Azure-Active-Directory-now-with-Group-Claims-and-Application/ba-p/243862)
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- [Azure Active Directory app manifest](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/develop/reference-app-manifest)

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