Microsoft Azure Active Directory 

Microsoft Azure Active Directory is a directory service used for identity and access management. You can use Microsoft Azure Active Directory as a data source when landing or replicating data.

• For more information about connecting to SaaS applications, see Connecting to SaaS applications.

• For more information about Lite connectors, see Classifications for SaaS application connectors.

• Depending on your use case, you might need to install Data Movement gateway to move data from SaaS applications. For more information, see When is Data Movement gateway required?.

Supported update methods

For more information, see An overview of target update methods.

Landing tasks:

• Reload and compare

Replication tasks:

• Full load

Landing data in a data lake tasks:

• Reload

Preparing for authentication

To access your Microsoft Azure Active Directory data, you need to authenticate the connection with your account credentials.

1. Go to https://portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft_AAD_RegisteredApps/ApplicationsListBlade and click New registration.

2. Set Name to Qlik

3. Set the redirect URL to https://connector.qlik.com/auth/oauth/v3.htm.

4. Click Register.

5. Copy the Application ID to Client ID in the connection settings.

6. Click API permissions.

7. Click Add a permission.

8. Click Microsoft Graph.

9. Click Delegated permissions, and select offline_access.

10. In the list, select all integrations that contains data you want to include in the connection. For each integration, select all items that end with .Read, .Read.Basic, .Read.All or .Read.Shared. Click Add permissions when you are finished with your selections.

11. Click Grant admin consent for... and select Yes.

12. Click Certificates & secrets.

13. Click New client secret, and select Never.

14. Click Add.

Value contains your client secret that you can copy to Client Secret in the connection. You may also want to record the client secret for future use.

Creating the connection

For more information, see Connecting to SaaS applications.

1. Click Authenticate when you have filled in the required connection settings.

   You may be asked to log in to the source application.

   A window is displayed with an authentication code.

2. Copy the code to the clipboard and return to the connection dialog.

3. Paste the code in Complete authentication with the code provided by the source and click Verify.

   Tip noteYou may need to scroll down to see this field.

   When status is Verified,the authentication is verified.

4. Provide a name for the connection in Connection name.

5. Select Open connection metadata to define metadata for the connection when it has been created.