Jira Cloud and Azure AD Integration

[Gor Greyan]

Hi, Dear Community,

We are setting up our Jira Cloud, and we have arrived at the Azure AD Integrations.

I have a few questions about that.
Although I read the documentation about integration, I need to know.

- After integrating the systems, are they automatically granted a licensed seat in Jira Cloud, or not?
- What is the best practice for provisioning access to the users, I mean what groups can I create in AD and keep them there?
- Do the AD organization groups sync in Jira, for granting access, for example, via Groups?

If you have any best practices, please share them with me.

Thanks in advance.

[Tomislav Tobijas]

Hi @Gor Greyan ,

I'd recommend checking out these resources: Provision and sync users from Microsoft Azure AD

Basically, you will need Atlassian Guard to make the connection, but you will be able to manage everything through IdP > in your case, Azure AD/Entra ID.

Once you connect your IdP with Atlassian, you will be able to assign product/app role (meaning, license) to a specific user group that is synced from IdP. Then, the only thing you would need to do is to add specific/new user to the synced group, and their account will automatically be created on the Atlassian side, and they will be granted app license.

There are more to it > for example, now you can connect Teams with groups that are synced from IdP, so most of user management is being done from IdPs like Azure, Okta, etc.

Cheers,
Tobi