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Status Future consideration
Categories Users
Created by Rob Jackson
Created on Aug 27, 2024

Cosmos Portal - Single place for User Administration

It would be great to have the Cosmos Portal as a single point of user administration. It is currently necessary for customers to manage users who need to have the Cosmos Addin from the Microsoft Admin Centre, whereas it is often the case that the people that administer Cosmos Users do not have access to the Microsoft Admin Centre and so need to raise a separate request to the Azure administrator.


Some feature ideas as to how this might work...


  • Within the Cosmos Portal, it could be possible to trigger an action to create an Azure Security Group called "Cosmos Users" (and for this group to be added to the users for the Cosmos Integrated App Addin. This could be a similar action (in the Administration Area) next to the process that creates a SharePoint site.

  • An option to be available to automatically add ALL new Cosmos Users to that security group, so that the Cosmos Addin is pushed out to those users.

  • Alternatively, if this "Add All" option is not ticked, for users to be administered on a user-by-user basis (as it might not always be the case that users should be allowed to have the Cosmos addin for data security reasons - i.e. if they are not allowed to use the drilldown feature).

...but the end goal would be to be able to manage everything related to administration directly from the Cosmos portal.