Export role assignments for all Azure subscriptions
Microsoft has done it straightforward to get an overview of Azure role assignments for a subscription. They have added the Download role assignments button in the Azure portal under Subscriptions. When I’m working with customers that have many subscriptions, I’ll like to get an overview of all the subscriptions at once. Therefore I use PowerShell the export role assignments for all Azure subscriptions at once.
Script parameters
There are 2 parameters in the script, $OutputPath and $SelectCurrentSubscription . None of them are mandatory.
$OutputPath: If defined, a CSV file will be exported to the chosen location. Example: .\Export-RoleAssignments.ps1 -OutputPath C:\temp
$SelectCurrentSubscription: Will only export role assignments from the subscription that are selected. Example: .\Export-RoleAssignments.ps1 -SelectCurrentSubscription
Run Get-Azcontext to view which subscription is selected.
Script Output
Besides getting an overview of the overall role assignments in an Azure subscription, I also like to know if a role is a Custom or Built-in role. The script will check each assignment if CustomRole is True or False.
Output Example in Powershell Console
Output Example to CSV File
The PowerShell Script
The Powershell script will be available on my account Github . Go there for the latest updates (article script will not be synced with the GitHub version).
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Can you edit the script that when roles assigned to groups the group members are also exported in that csv?
getting the following error on azuread part:
PS C:\scripts> .\azure.ps1 -OutPutPath C:\temp VERBOSE: Running for all subscriptions in tenant VERBOSE: Changing to Subscription Access to Azure Active Directory VERBOSE: Getting information about Role Assignments… WARNING: We have migrated the API calls for this cmdlet from Azure Active Directory Graph to Microsoft Graph. Visit https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2181475 for any permission issues. Get-AzRoleAssignment : Operation returned an invalid status code ‘BadRequest’ At C:\scripts\azure.ps1:39 char:14 + $roles = Get-AzRoleAssignment | Select-Object RoleDefinitionName, … + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : CloseError: (:) [Get-AzRoleAssignment], ErrorResponseException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Resources.GetAzureRoleAssignmentCommand
You have to edit the script for it to work again. You will have to change the API call to Microsoft Graph. Maybe I will do it at some point.
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Understand Azure role assignments
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Role assignments enable you to grant a principal (such as a user, a group, a managed identity, or a service principal) access to a specific Azure resource. This article describes the details of role assignments.
Role assignment
Access to Azure resources is granted by creating a role assignment, and access is revoked by removing a role assignment.
A role assignment has several components, including:
- The principal , or who is assigned the role.
- The role that they're assigned.
- The scope at which the role is assigned.
- The name of the role assignment, and a description that helps you to explain why the role has been assigned.
For example, you can use Azure RBAC to assign roles like:
- User Sally has owner access to the storage account contoso123 in the resource group ContosoStorage .
- Everybody in the Cloud Administrators group in Microsoft Entra ID has reader access to all resources in the resource group ContosoStorage .
- The managed identity associated with an application is allowed to restart virtual machines within Contoso's subscription.
The following shows an example of the properties in a role assignment when displayed using Azure PowerShell :
The following shows an example of the properties in a role assignment when displayed using the Azure CLI , or the REST API :
The following table describes what the role assignment properties mean.
When you create a role assignment, you need to specify the scope at which it's applied. The scope represents the resource, or set of resources, that the principal is allowed to access. You can scope a role assignment to a single resource, a resource group, a subscription, or a management group.
Use the smallest scope that you need to meet your requirements.
For example, if you need to grant a managed identity access to a single storage account, it's good security practice to create the role assignment at the scope of the storage account, not at the resource group or subscription scope.
For more information about scope, see Understand scope .
Role to assign
A role assignment is associated with a role definition. The role definition specifies the permissions that the principal should have within the role assignment's scope.
You can assign a built-in role definition or a custom role definition. When you create a role assignment, some tooling requires that you use the role definition ID while other tooling allows you to provide the name of the role.
For more information about role definitions, see Understand role definitions .
Principals include users, security groups, managed identities, workload identities, and service principals. Principals are created and managed in your Microsoft Entra tenant. You can assign a role to any principal. Use the Microsoft Entra ID object ID to identify the principal that you want to assign the role to.
When you create a role assignment by using Azure PowerShell, the Azure CLI, Bicep, or another infrastructure as code (IaC) technology, you specify the principal type . Principal types include User , Group , and ServicePrincipal . It's important to specify the correct principal type. Otherwise, you might get intermittent deployment errors, especially when you work with service principals and managed identities.
A role assignment's resource name must be a globally unique identifier (GUID).
Role assignment resource names must be unique within the Microsoft Entra tenant, even if the scope of the role assignment is narrower.
When you create a role assignment by using the Azure portal, Azure PowerShell, or the Azure CLI, the creation process gives the role assignment a unique name for you automatically.
If you create a role assignment by using Bicep or another infrastructure as code (IaC) technology, you need to carefully plan how you name your role assignments. For more information, see Create Azure RBAC resources by using Bicep .
Resource deletion behavior
When you delete a user, group, service principal, or managed identity from Microsoft Entra ID, it's a good practice to delete any role assignments. They aren't deleted automatically. Any role assignments that refer to a deleted principal ID become invalid.
If you try to reuse a role assignment's name for another role assignment, the deployment will fail. This issue is more likely to occur when you use Bicep or an Azure Resource Manager template (ARM template) to deploy your role assignments, because you have to explicitly set the role assignment name when you use these tools. To work around this behavior, you should either remove the old role assignment before you recreate it, or ensure that you use a unique name when you deploy a new role assignment.
Description
You can add a text description to a role assignment. While descriptions are optional, it's a good practice to add them to your role assignments. Provide a short justification for why the principal needs the assigned role. When somebody audits the role assignments, descriptions can help to understand why they've been created and whether they're still applicable.
Some roles support role assignment conditions based on attributes in the context of specific actions. A role assignment condition is an additional check that you can optionally add to your role assignment to provide more fine-grained access control.
For example, you can add a condition that requires an object to have a specific tag for the user to read the object.
You typically build conditions using a visual condition editor, but here's what an example condition looks like in code:
The preceding condition allows users to read blobs with a blob index tag key of Project and a value of Cascade .
For more information about conditions, see What is Azure attribute-based access control (Azure ABAC)?
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azurerm_role_assignment.role_definition_id changes upon every apply #25328
unique-dominik commented Mar 20, 2024 • edited
magodo commented Mar 21, 2024
Besides, regarding the source of the azurerm_role_assignment.role_definition_id , i.e. the azurerm_role_definition.role_definition_resource_id , its format depends on how we GET it. As a role definition can have multiple assignable scopes, it means you can GET it via different prefix scopes. Depending on how you GET it (e.g. with only the scope prefix, or with one of the assignable_scopes ), it makes the result response's id has the same scope prefix.
Back to the first issue, as the provider version didn't change, and also the API behavior shall remain still. I suspect you've some out-of-band change on the azurerm_role_definition resource (e.g. change of the scope).
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Microsoft has done it straightforward to get an overview of Azure role assignments for a subscription. They have added the Download role assignments button in the Azure portal under Subscriptions. When I'm working with customers that have many subscriptions, I'll like to get an overview of all the subscriptions at once.
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id - The Role Assignment ID. Timeouts. The timeouts block allows you to specify timeouts for certain actions: create - (Defaults to 30 minutes) Used when creating the Role Assignment. read - (Defaults to 5 minutes) Used when retrieving the Role Assignment. delete - (Defaults to 30 minutes) Used when deleting the Role Assignment. Import
Role assignments enable you to grant a principal (such as a user, a group, a managed identity, or a service principal) access to a specific Azure resource. This article describes the details of role assignments. Role assignment. Access to Azure resources is granted by creating a role assignment, and access is revoked by removing a role assignment.
Azure ARM Template, assign multiple roles to managed identity in Automation Account. I try to build an ARM Template to create Automation Account with System Managed Identity, and in the same template add role assignment on the Subscription level to that System Managed Identity. The code I use is:
@unique-dominik There are two issues around this:. Why the first diff occurs; Why the plan diff after apply occurs; Begin with the 2nd one: The role assignment service will conditionally modify the role_definition_id depending on the azurerm_role_assignment.scope.. E.g. given:
However, the UI only allows me to assign a single role to a user or group. I can't find how to assign multiple roles to a user or group. I can add the user to multiple groups and assign roles to members of that group, which will result in multiple role claims in the token for that user, but this seems awkward. Am I missing something?