Microsoft Azure

Configuring the Veza integration for Microsoft Azure

Veza connects to Azure tenants using an App Registration granted read-only permissions for the Microsoft Graph API. You will need an app client ID, client secret, and the Azure tenant ID to enable the connection in Veza.

Adding an Azure tenant will parse all its services, including Azure AD as an Identity Provider (IdP), and Microsoft SharePoint Online as an additional data source.

See Notes & Supported Entities for more details and supported Microsoft services.

Integrating with Microsoft Azure

Veza for Azure

To integrate with Microsoft Azure, you will need to create an App Registration with read-only permissions for the services to discover. You will enter the App Registration's credentials when adding the Veza integration:

1. Register a new application for Veza

1. From your Azure tenant profile, navigate to App Registrations > New Registration

2. Name the new application (for example Veza Integration)

3. Select Accounts in this organizational directory only (tenantname only - Single tenant), and click "Register" to save your changes.

For more information, see the full instructions from Microsoft.

2. Grant permissions for the new app

1. With the new app registration selected, choose Manage > API Permissions and click "Add a Permission"

2. Select Microsoft Graph. Click "Application Permissions" and add the permissions:

   • Application.Read.All

   • AuditLog.Read.All (Required to collect last login date for users)

   • CustomSecAttributeAssignment.Read.All (Required to gather custom security attributes)

   • DeviceManagementManagedDevices.Read.All (Required to collect Intune devices)

   • DeviceManagementRBAC.Read.All (Required to collect Intune roles)

   • Device.Read.All (Required to collect Entra ID devices)

   • Directory.Read.All

   • Files.Read.All

   • Group.Read.All

   • GroupMember.Read.All

   • IdentityRiskyUser.Read.All

   • Policy.Read.All (Used to evaluate Conditional Access policies)
   • PrivilegedAccess.Read.AzureAD (Required for PIM roles and groups)

   • Reports.Read.All (Required when connecting to SharePoint Online)

   • RoleManagement.Read.All (Required for PIM roles and groups)

   • Sites.Read.All

   • User.Read.All

3. Enable "Grant Admin Consent" on the API permissions screen.

Check that Admin Consent is granted

The delegated User.Read permission should be granted automatically. If it isn't present, add the permission from Add a Permission > Microsoft Graph > Delegated Permissions.

3. Enable SharePoint integration (optional)

Additional API permissions are required if you plan to connect to SharePoint Online. To grant read-only access for Veza, choose SharePoint on the app registration "Add a Permission" screen, and grant the application permissions:

Adding additional SharePoint permissions

• User.Read.All

• Sites.Read.All

The app registration will also need the Reports.Read.All Microsoft Graph permission from the previous step.

For a complete overview and visual guide, see the official Azure documentation on configuring client application access.

Enable audit log parsing for activity-based extraction

Audit log extraction for SharePoint is provided as an Early Access feature. Please contact your support team to enable this configuration option.

When audit log extraction is enabled for an Azure tenant, Veza will gather audit logs using the Office 365 Management Activity API, and only connect to SharePoint Online for a full update when changes occur.

Enabling activity-based scheduling should help reduce lag between extractions, reducing the total time required to ingest large SharePoint environments. Please see below for the requirements and optional steps to enable:

1. Auditing must be enabled in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal

   1. Go to https://compliance.microsoft.com and sign in. Click Audit.

   2. If auditing isn't enabled, a banner will prompt to Start recording user and admin activity.

   3. Click the banner to enable auditing, and wait for the changes to propogate.

   4. Alternatively, use the Exchange Power Shell:

      1. Set-AdminAuditLogConfig -UnifiedAuditLogIngestionEnabled $true

2. The Enterprise App used by Veza must have ActivityFeed.Read permission on the Office 365 Management API:

   1. When adding permisions to Enable SharePoint integration (optional), add the additional permission for the app registration: API permissions → Office 365 Management APIs → Application permissions → ActivityFeed.Read
3. After you finish integrating the Azure tenant, enable audit log extraction under Veza Configuration → Cloud Providers. The audit log status column should update to show that extraction is enabled:

enabling audit log extraction

4. Generate a Client Secret

1. From Certificates & Secrets, click "New Client Secret" and select an expiration date. Click "Add" to generate a new client secret value and ID.

2. Copy the client secret Value, which you'll use to configure the integration within Veza.

Mark down the client secret

5. Get the Application and Directory unique identifier

1. Open the Overview screen for the new application. Copy the Application (client) ID.

2. Copy the value for Directory (tenant) ID. You will need both values when adding the provider to Veza.

Retrieving Azure IDs

6. Assign the Reader role for the Veza app

For each Azure subscription to discover, you will need to add the new Veza app as a Reader. If you don't have any subscriptions (as will be the case if only integrating with Azure AD as an identity provider), this step is optional.

Assigning the reader role

1. From the Azure Subscription, select Access control (IAM)

2. Click on "+ Add" -> "Add role assignment"

3. Select "Reader" as the role

4. Select User, Group, or Service Principal" under Assign Access To

5. Select or search for the Veza app, and assign it the "Reader" role

6. (Optional) Assign the "Reader and Data Access" role to discover storage accounts and keys.

7. Save your changes

(Optional) Assign the Cosmos DB Account Reader role

To discover Azure CosmosDB resources, assign the Cosmos DB Account Reader role to the Veza app:

1. Navigate to your CosmosDB account in Azure Portal

2. Select Access control (IAM)

3. Click "+ Add" -> "Add role assignment"

4. Select "Cosmos DB Account Reader" as the role

5. Choose "User, Group, or Service Principal" under Assign access to

6. Search for and select the Veza app

7. Save the role assignment

This role provides the minimum required permissions to discover CosmosDB accounts, SQL role definitions, SQL role assignments, and databases. See Azure CosmosDB Support for more details.

7. Add Key Vault Permissions (Optional)

To connect to Azure Key Vault, a Key Vault access policy must grant the Veza app List permissions on Keys, Secrets, and Certificates. To create this policy:

1. On the Key Vaults services page, choose the vault Veza will discover.

2. Select Access policies.

3. Click + Create.

4. Select List under Key Permissions, Secret permissions, and Certificate permissions.

5. Click Next.

6. Search and select the Veza app as the Authorized Application.

7. Click Next, Next, and Create to save the policy.

Key Vault permissions for the Veza enterprise app.

8. Add the Azure tenant to Veza

After completing the steps above, you can add the credentials and enable discovery by navigating to Veza Integrations > Add Integration. Choose Azure as the Integration Type.

Field	Notes
Insight Point	Leave default unless using an Insight Point
Name	Friendly name for the account
Tenant ID	Azure tenant ID to discover
Application ID	App UUID
Client Secret Value	App client secret value
Auth Certificate	Optional certificate for connecting to SharePoint
Auth certificate password	Password for SharePoint certificate (optional)
Limit Azure services extracted	Choose individual services to discover (See below)
Domains	Comma-separated list of domains to discover, ignoring any others
Dynamics 365 CRM Environments	Optional list of Dynamics 365 CRM environments to discover, e.g. https://org50e57fbd.crm.dynamics.com.
Dynamics 365 ERP Environments	Optional list of Dynamics 365 ERP environments to discover, e.g. https://company.operations.dynamics.com.
Azure Gov Cloud	Azure Government Cloud region where the tenant is located (currently supported: "None," "US").
Extract PIM Eligibility	Optionally discover temporary role assumptions based on Privileged Identity Management scheduling rules.

Veza will gather metadata for all discovered Azure AD (Entra ID) domains for the tenant. Use the Domains list to only include the specified domains in the extraction.

Limit Services

Additional options on the "add provider" panel enable limits on the data sources and identities extracted:

Option	Details
Gather disabled users	Whether to include disabled users
Gather guest users	Whether to parse identity metadata for Azure AD Guest users
Gather personal sites	Whether to include personal SharePoint sites
Data source allow/deny lists	Indicate resources to ignore by name or *
Custom Properties	Indicate custom security attributes to gather

Troubleshooting

If the initial connection fails with the status "Insufficient privileges to complete the operation," validate that the correct API Permissions are granted, and are granted with the type application and not delegated.

Connecting to SharePoint

You can connect to SharePoint Online by uploading a .PFX certificate generated for app-only access, and optionally providing a password for the certificate. For information about generating the certificate, please see the Microsoft documentation. You will also need to update the permissions granted the Veza app to include User.Read.All and Sites.Read.All, as outlined in the SharePoint setup instructions.

Custom Security Attributes

Veza can optionally gather and show custom security attributes on Azure AD objects. The custom properties to discover must be identified by name and type in the Azure tenant configuration.

An Azure AD Premium P1 or P2 license is required to use Custom Attributes for Azure AD. The Enterprise Application used by Veza must have the CustomSecAttributeAssignment.Read.All Microsoft Graph permission.

To enable custom property extraction:

1. Add or edit a new Azure cloud provider configuration.

2. On the provider configuration modal, click + Add Custom Property.

3. Provide the type and name of the custom property.

   1. For Azure AD, the name is the attribute name of the custom security attribute. The data type is a property of the custom security attribute (Boolean, Integer, or String).

   2. For example: (EngineeringCertification, Boolean), (MarketingLevel, String).

   3. If the custom properties are part of an Attribute Set, include the attribute set name as a prefix, for example <AttributeSetName>_<AttributeName>.
4. Save the configuration. The custom attributes will be collected the next time the data source is parsed.

Enable Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

Veza supports Azure Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for both roles and groups. For more information about PIM support, see the Azure AD documentation.

To enable PIM extraction:

1. Ensure the required permissions are granted to the Veza app:

   • RoleManagement.Read.All

   • PrivilegedAccess.Read.AzureAD

   • Group.Read.All

2. When configuring the Azure integration, set the "Extract PIM Eligibility" option to "Yes"

3. Save the configuration. PIM assignments will be collected during the next extraction

Enable Dynamics 365

The Microsoft Azure integration includes optional support for Microsoft Dynamics 365. This integration allows Veza to discover connections between Azure AD Users, Groups, and Service Principals, and the permissions they can assume within Dynamics 365 environments.

Veza supports both Dynamics 365 CRM and Dynamics 365 ERP environments:

• Dynamics 365 CRM - Customer relationship management environments (URLs such as https://orgXXXXXXX.crm.dynamics.com)
• Dynamics 365 ERP - Enterprise resource planning environments (URLs such as https://xxx.operations.dynamics.com)

For full setup instructions and supported entities, see the specific integration guides.

Enable Microsoft Intune

The Microsoft Azure integration includes optional support for Intune, including Managed Devices and Role Definitions. Veza discovers and shows connections between Azure AD Users and Groups, and the Devices and Roles to which they are assigned in Intune.

In order to extract Intune, Veza requires the following Application Permissions for the Microsoft Graph API:

• DeviceManagementManagedDevices.Read.All

• DeviceManagementRBAC.Read.All

Enable Microsoft Teams

To discover Microsoft Teams resources, including teams, channels, and relationships to external organization users, Veza requires the additional Graph API permissions:

• Team.ReadBasic.All

• TeamMember.Read.All

• Channel.ReadBasic.All

• ChannelMember.Read.All

• User.Read.All