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Bedrich Chaloupka
Sep 10, 2018Copper Contributor
Security & Compliance Center RBAC vs Azure AD admin roles
Please is there any clear documentation (mapping) of what is relation between AAD admin roles and the Security & Compliance Center (SCC) RBAC roles? In both admin centers is possible to add someone as member of Security Administrator, Security Reader, Compliance Administrator and other roles, but the administrative features set available in the SCC is different based on whether the role was assigned in AAD or in SCC. I know the roles have same names and different purpose, but obviously the AAD admin roles enable some admin features in SCC, but different than expected. Did not find this anywhere documented except a not that Global admin gets automatically Organization Management role in SCC. This looks quite chaotic.
Well it is even more complex. Microsoft's documentation says that the Global admin is automatically added as member of Organization Management role in SCC, but if you open SCC Admin site as Global admin you will see different management options then if you just add somebody to the Organization Management role in SCC. The same happens with Compliance Administrator, Security Administrator or Reader, which are AAD admin roles as well as SCC admin roles.
There is a difference between a Role Group (what EAC and the SCC use) and Roles, as used by the Azure AD, as the formed can be customized. In a nutshell though, assigning a user with one of those roles in AAD should add him to the relevant Role Group in the SCC, so they should give the same set of permissions.
The AAD roles are documented in details here, down to the individual permission entry: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/users-groups-roles/directory-assign-admin-roles
Some additional information about the SCC roles can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/securitycompliance/permissions-in-the-security-and-compliance-center?redirectSourcePath=%252farticle%252fPermissions-in-the-Office-365-Security-Compliance-Center-d10608af-7934-490a-818e-e68f17d0e9c1
- broonsterCopper Contributor
I've read those documents a few time now and still don't see the difference and/or crossover between AAD role and Compliance Centre roles.
- Bedrich ChaloupkaCopper Contributor
Thank you for your response. You are completely correct that the AAD admin roles should add the individual to relevant SCC role and provide same set of permissions, but it obviously does not work like that. The set of given permissions is different and the individual even does not appear in the members list of any of the SCC admin roles.
That's the point, he doesn't need to appear there. Much like you don't see all your Global admins listed as members of each Role Group in EAC/SCC. Instead, you see the "placeholder" groups such as "TenantAdmins_c25d1" or "SecurityAdmins_-417435872".