Description:
This policy restricts users from accessing group management features in the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Access Pane. This helps to protect the confidentiality and integrity of group memberships by preventing unauthorized users from making changes to groups.

Rationale: 
The "Restrict user ability to access groups features in the Access Pane" policy is important for security reasons. By restricting users from accessing group management features, you can help to prevent unauthorized users from making changes to groups, which could compromise the confidentiality and integrity of group memberships.

Impact:
If you set the "Restrict user ability to access groups features in the Access Pane" policy to "Yes," users will no longer be able to access the following group management features in the Azure AD Access Pane:

  • Create new groups
  • Edit group memberships
  • Delete groups

Default Value:
The default value for the "Restrict user ability to access groups features in the Access Pane" policy is "No." This means that by default, users are able to access all group management features in the Azure AD Access Pane.

Pre-requisites:
To implement this policy, you will need to have the following:

  • An Azure AD tenant
  • The Azure AD PowerShell module

Remediation Steps:
To remediate this policy, you can follow these steps:

  1. Sign in to your Azure AD tenant.
  2. Open the Azure AD PowerShell module.
  3. Run the following command to get the current value of the "Restrict user ability to access groups features in the Access Pane" policy:
Get-AzureADPolicy | Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -eq "Restrict user ability to access groups features in the Access Pane"}
  1. If the value of the policy is "No," run the following command to set the policy to "Yes":
Set-AzureADPolicy -DisplayName "Restrict user ability to access groups features in the Access Pane" -PolicyType Enabled -Value True

Test Plan:
To test this policy, you can follow these steps:

  1. Verify that the value of the policy is set to "Yes."
  2. Log in to the Azure AD Access Pane as a user who does not have administrator permissions.
  3. Try to create a new group, edit group memberships, or delete a group.
  4. Verify that you are unable to perform any of these actions.

Implementation Plan:
To implement this policy, you can follow these steps:

  1. Create a new Azure AD policy.
  2. Set the policy name to "Restrict user ability to access groups features in the Access Pane."
  3. Set the policy type to "Enabled."
  4. Set the policy value to "True."
  5. Assign the policy to all users in your Azure AD tenant.

Azure Console:
To implement this policy using the Azure Console, you can follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Azure AD portal.
  2. Click on "Policies."
  3. Click on "Create Policy."
  4. In the "Policy Name" field, enter "Restrict user ability to access groups features in the Access Pane."
  5. In the "Policy Type" drop-down list, select "Enabled."
  6. In the "Policy Value" field, select "True."
  7. Click on "Create."
  8. Click on "Assign."
  9. In the "Assign Policy" dialog box, select all users in your Azure AD tenant.
  10. Click on "Assign."

Azure CLI:
To implement this policy using the Azure CLI, you can follow these steps:

  1. Install the Azure CLI.
  2. Sign in to your Azure AD tenant.
  3. Run the following command to create the policy:
az ad policy create --name "Restrict user ability to access groups features in the Access Pane" --type Enabled --value True
  1. Run the following command to assign the policy to all users in your Azure AD tenant:
az ad policy assign --id "/subscriptions/<your-subscription-id>/resourceGroups/<your-resource-group>/providers/Microsoft.AAD/policies/Restrict user ability to access groups features in the Access Pane" --members "*"

Backout Plan:
To back out this policy, you can follow these steps:

  1. Delete the policy.
  2. Remove the policy from all users in your Azure AD tenant.

Note:
This setting restricts users from creating and managing groups in the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Access Pane. If this setting is enabled, only administrators will be able to create and manage groups.

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