Configuring access to Azure resources by assigning roles

If a user in your organization needs permissions to access Azure resources, you need to assign the user to the appropriate role in Azure. In this demonstration, we are going to assign administrator access to a user for a VM. To configure access to the VM for the user, you have to perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Azure portal by opening https://portal.azure.com.
2. Open the PacktNetworkWatcher resource group and select VM1 from the list:

1. You will be redirected to the VM settings blade.

1. In the settings blade, select Access control (IAM) and click on Add | Add role assignment in the top menu:

1. In the Add role assignment blade, specify the following values:

1. Click on Save.
2. The user now has administrator permissions on the VM.

In this demonstration, we assigned administrator access to a user for a VM. We are now going to look at how to configure management access to Azure.