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This post will explain how you can share the customizable experience of the Azure Portal with other administrators and delegated administrators of your subscription.
One of the Azure administrator “life hacks” is to create customized dashboards. I typically create one of these for every application, lab, or demo environment that I’m working with. I will pin shortcuts to the resource group(s), critical resources, and I will also pin critical Azure Monitor metrics. When I am working on something, I’ll switch to that dashboard and I’ll have the handy shortcuts and critical information right in front of me without having to go look for it.
A Custom Azure Dashboard for My Azure File Sync Lab [Image Credit: Aidan Finn]
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A recent unheralded addition to the Azure Portal was the ability to export or import a customized dashboard. There are Export and Import buttons at the top of the dashboard. If you click Export, a save action will start in your browser and the configuration of the current dashboard will be saved to your computer as a JSON file.
A Snippet of a Customized Azure Dashboard [Image Credit: Aidan Finn]
Another option is to live share your current dashboard with others, via a resource group. Any changes to the dashboard would be also shared with others. You can set permissions on the dashboard to prevent unwanted additional sharing or changes.
To share the dashboard, click Share at the top of the dashboard. A popup blade will appear and ask how you want to share the current dashboard:
Sharing a Dashboard in the Azure Portal [Image Credit: Aidan Finn]
Anyone with suitable permissions over the subscription (contributor or owner) will be able to access the shared dashboard. But what if you have users with delegated rights? For example, there is a non-owner with rights over a resource group and it’s contained resources. You can also grant these users access to your dashboard. There are two ways. The first is to edit the resulting dashboard resource. But the other way is to (confusingly) click Unshare at the top of the dashboard in question. A popup blade will appear and you can click Manage Users to manage the permissions over the dashboard.
Click Manage Users to Access the Permissions Over the Shared Azure Portal Dashboard [Image Credit: Aidan Finn]
Delegating Permissions to a Shared Azure Portal Dashboard [Image Credit: Aidan Finn]
A Delegated User Accessing a Shared Azure Portal Dashboard [Image Credit: Aidan Finn]
This Shared Azure Portal Is Read-Only [Image Credit: Aidan Finn]
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Custom dashboards in the Azure Portal can be a great tool for making more of an Azure subscription. Microsoft has provided a couple of easy ways to share any useful dashboards that you create and this includes being able to share dashboards with different permissions levels using native RBAC techniques.
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