Azure Blockchain Workbench – Configure Active Directory

This is an series of post to build Blockchain solutions with Azure Blockchain Workbench. Before reading this post, please go through Overview of Azure Blockchain Workbench .

Steps to Build and Deploy Blockchain solution with Ethereum

• Step 1: Configure Active Directory
• Step 2: Provision Azure Blockchain Workbench components
• Step 3: Write Smart Contract for Asset Transfer DApp with Solidity
• Step 4: Deploy Asset Transfer application

In this post we will work on Step 1: Configure Active Directory

Steps to configure Active Directory

1. Blockchain Workbench API app registration
2. Add Role to App
3. Add permissions
4. Grant permissions
5. Generate Keys
6. Get Application ID
7. Domain Name

 

1. Blockchain Workbench API app registration

• Open Azure Active directory
• Click on App Registrations
• Click on New application registration
• Enter below details
  • Name: Blockchain API
  • Sign-in URL: https://blockchainapi
• Click on Create

 

2. Add Role to App

• Click on Manifest
• Generate GUID through online https://guidgenerator.com/ and make a note of GUID
• Update the appRoles with below json with new GUID which you have generated

“appRoles”: [

     {

       “allowedMemberTypes”: [         “User”,

         “Application”

       ],

       “displayName”: “Administrator”,

       “id”: ““,

       “isEnabled”: true,

       “description”: “Blockchain Workbench administrator role allows creation of applications, user to role assignments, etc.”,

       “value”: “Administrator”

     }

   ],

• Save the details

 

3. Add permissions

• Click on Settings
• Select Required permissions
• Add Permissions

• Select Microsoft Graph
• Hit select

• Select permission as Read all users’ full profiles
• Hit Select
• Hit Done

 

4. Grant permissions

• Select Grand permissions
• Hit Yes

 

5. Generate Keys

• Select the Application
• Click on Settings
• Select Keys

• Enter Service in Description field
• Select value in Expires
• Hit Save
• Note down the generated Key
• This key will be used while provisioning

 

6. Copy Application ID

• Open Azure Active directory
• Click on App Registrations
• Select Blockchain API
• Copy Application ID for later use

 

7. Copy Domain Name

• Go to Active Directory
• Select Custom domain names
• Copy the domain for later use

 

With this we are done configuring Active Directory. In the next step we will provision Azure Blockchain Workbench

Step 2: Provision Azure Blockchain Workbench components

Reference/Further reading

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/blockchain/workbench/