Enterprise Application

[billing greenique]

Hi, I have been looking for some time in the Atlassian documentation for more information on the individual Enterprise Applications and their functions. When we set up Atlassian Access (with or without SCIM depending), we currently use up to 3 applications within Azure. Atlassian, Atlassian Cloud, Atlassian Cloud (AzureAD sync). The customer wants to know what the individual applications are responsible for and what they control within Azure AD.
Unfortunately, the information is relatively sparse and maybe someone has more information from the official side or can tell me where to look for it.

[Ed Letifov _TechTime - New Zealand_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @billing greenique 

Purely based on the list of names you have provided:

• Atlassian – this is the app responsible for "shortcut" "Login with Microsoft" login. You can't delete it (it will resurrect itself). You can disable it for your users by configuring it to require explicit assignment and then giving it to nobody or select few – this however is bad UX (people will still reach and click and end up with a cryptic Azure AD error screen trying to tell them that "your admin didn't give this to you"). Instead you should assign the same group as controls your ability to SSO into Atlassian Cloud to this app - i.e. restrict to those who should be allowed to use Atlassian Cloud, but not "everyone".
• Atlassian Cloud – this is the app responsible for SSO and SCIM (you should really create a 2nd separate instance of this app for SCIM, and leave the 1st instance to only be responsible for SSO – for security reasons, giving you ability to keep syncing user groups via SCIM but denying a user SSO, in the case of some forensic investigation). For SSO – should have a group assigned separate from product access groups (e.g. some of your people may need SSO into Cloud e.g. for this very Community and University but not access to your products). SCIM then should be pushing both SSO group and the product access groups (hence the need for the second app – since it pushes all assigned groups i.e. from a single list, and here you need two lists SSO only vs. SSO + access groups)
• Atlassian Cloud (AzureAD sync) – this must be (I am guessing, as I never use this one) the newer app responsible for group sync via Microsoft Graph API (this allows you to sync more groups than SCIM, and I think nested ones too?)

[billing greenique]

Thank you for this detailed answer. I always find it very nice when the community is so active.

[Jehan Bhathena]

Hi @billing greenique ,

Not quite sure why there are 2 Atlassian Cloud Apps,

Atlassian creates an app for the email permissions andthe other  for the Azure AD login.

In each Azure app, there are permissions associated with it, you can check along with your AzureAdmin to analyze that.

Do let us know if you find anything 😀 would be agreat Info