Prerequisites for Setup

Ensure that you have reviewed Permissions Required for Ansys Access on Microsoft Azure.

The setup process is configured for a single domain only (your primary company domain, such as company.com).

If your email/authentication/Active Directory domains are different from your primary company domain, contact Ansys support.

The IT administrator who is performing the setup must have a Microsoft Entra user account with the Global Administrator or Privileged Role Administrator role to establish a trust relationship between the company's Entra and Ansys Entra. If a non-corporate Microsoft Entra is used, you must create a temporary user account with user type "member" and use that account for the Ansys Access on Microsoft Azure setup process.

After a trust relationship is established, you need subscription-level Owner privileges to add a Contributor role.

As a best practice, Ansys strongly recommends that you create a new Azure subscription to ensure that permissions given to Ansys Access on Microsoft Azure to create resources are specific to this new subscription only.

The IT administrator who is performing the setup must have an Ansys ID. For more information about Ansys ID see the Ansys Account Management guide or the Ansys Sign-In Help.

The domain of the Ansys ID email address (for example, company.com) should be the primary domain for which you want to configure access to Ansys Access on Microsoft Azure. This will allow users with that domain in their Ansys ID email address to access the tenant when they sign in to Ansys Access on Microsoft Azure.