Azure: Upgrade from Azure ACS to Azure AD for ASR
Azure Media Services announced the support for Azure Active Directory (AAD) and depreciation of Azure Access Control Service (ACS authentication) Because Azure Active Directory provides powerful role-based access control features and support for more fine-grained access to resources in your account compared to the ACS token authentication model ("account keys"), we strongly recommend that you update your code and migrate from ACS to AAD-based authentication.
Note
As of June 30th, Azure Site Recovery no longer supports ACS based authentication. If you still haven't upgraded to AAD, any calls to the service may start to fail. The servers may move to a disconnected state, and replicated items’ status may move to critical. You may also not be able to perform any management activities.
How to Identify:
- Go to server where the Azure Site Recovery Provider is registered:
Between two on-premises VMM Sites SCVMM Between an on-premises VMM Site and Azure SCVMM Between an on-premises Hyper-V Site and Azure Hyper-V hosts Between an on-premises VMware/Physical Site to Azure Configuration Server, Scale out process Server - Navigate to the registry entry as shown in the below image. Under Registration, IsAADType should have the value as ‘True’. If not, your configuration is still on ACS.
Steps to upgrade to ACS:
Follow the below steps to upgrade from ACS to AAD based authentication while communicating with the Azure Site Recovery service.
Between two on-premises VMM Sites |
Note If your VMM is a Highly Available VMM (Clustered VMM), make sure that you install the upgrade on all nodes of the cluster where the VMM service is installed. |
Between an on-premises VMM Site and Azure |
Note If your VMM is a Highly Available VMM (Clustered VMM), make sure that you install the upgrade on all nodes of the cluster where the VMM service is installed |
Between an on-premises Hyper-V Site and Azure |
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Between an on-premises VMware/Physical Site to Azure |
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