This post describes how to create objects in Azure environment for tutorial Create Azure API App with AAD authentication and web jobs.

Create dashboard and Azure resource group

1. Open Azure portal, log in with your Microsoft account.
2. Click “+ New dashboard”, rename it to “Azure API APP with AAD Auth”, click “Done customization”. It allows pin tiles for new objects to this new dashboard.
   
   

   New dashboard

   

   Named dashboard

   

   Empty dashboard
3. Click “Resource groups” in the left pane, click “+ Add” button. Blade that creates an empty resource group is shown.
4. Use the following values for properties of resource group:
   

   Property	Value
   Resource group name	Azure_API_app_with_AAD_Auth
   Subscription	Your subscription
   Resource group location	Use the closest data center to your customers

   Check “Pin to dashboard”, and click “Create”.

   

   Resource groups

   

   New resource group

   

   Notification
5. If resource group was created successfully, portal shows our dashboard with empty tile of created resource group.
6. Pull at the right bottom corner of Resources widget, and increase it to 4×6 size.
   
   

   Resize tile

   

   Customize dashboard

   

   Updated dashboard

Create Azure storage

Two storage accounts should be created. One of them is used for storing images, thumbnails and keeping queue. The second is used for logging.
Let’s note, that storage name is used as part of direct url, so it should be unique among all Azure storage accounts, be lowercased and has from 3 up to 24 symbols. That is why used below names should be extended by unique prefix like your second name, project title, so on.

1. Click “Storage accounts” in the left pane, click “+ Add” button. Blade that creates storage account is shown.
2. Use the following values for properties of storage:
   

   Property	Value
   Name	azureapiappdata
   Deployment model	Resource manager
   Account kind	General purpose
   Replication	Geo-redundant storage (GRS) or Read-only geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS)
   Subscription	Your subscription
   Resource group	Use existent, and choose “Azure_API_app_with_AAD_Auth”
   Location	Use the closest data center to your customers

   Click “Create” to create azure storage.

   

   Storage accounts

   

   New storage account

   

   Create storage account

   

   Creating storage account
3. Repeat previous step to create “azureapiapplog” storage account.
4. Click on “Microsoft Azure” title in the left top corner and take a look at dashboard. It contains one tile with the list of created resources.
   
   

   Create storage account

   

   Creating storage account

   

   Deploy storage account

   

   Storage accounts

   

   Dashboard

Create App Service plan

1. Click “+ New” in the left pane, and search from “App Service Plan” object. Search blade shows the list of found objects, where the first should be “App Service Plan” by Microsoft. Click on it, and click “Create” on the next blade.
   
   

   Search blade

   

   Description

   

   New app service plan
2. Use the following values for properties of app service plan:
   

   Property	Value
   App Service plan	AzureApiAppPlan
   Subscription	Your subscription
   Resource group	Use existent, and choose “Azure_API_app_with_AAD_Auth”
   Operating System	Windows
   Location	Use the closest data center to your customers
   Pricing tier	You may keep default value “S1 Standard”. Otherwise, click at pricing tier button and choose another tier. For preview and test purposes “D1 Shared” is enough. Let’s note, that app services are charged per instance, not per plan.

   Click “Create” to create azure storage.

   

   Create app service plan

   

   Change pricing tier

   

   Creating app service plan

   

   Deployment

   

   Dashboard

Check AAD

Click “Azure Active Directory” in the left pane. Blade that shows current active directory objects is shown.

1. All used IP-addresses, names of servers, workstations, domains, are fictional and are used exclusively as a demonstration only.
2. Information is provided «AS IS».