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Understand management groups

Understand management groups

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Understand management groups

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- [Instructor] Next in hierarchy is a management group. A management group manages a subscription. It is one of the associated assets that is created when you sign up for a new subscription. All subscriptions have to be under a management group, because if you remember, a subscription isn't a standalone entity. Back to the shopping cart example. You need a person to push the cart forward. It won't just roll itself, so if the shopping cart is like a subscription, the person pushing it is like the management group. Every cart needs a person and every subscription needs a management group. A group called the Tenant Root Group is provisioned when you sign up for Azure the very first time. When you are creating a new subscription, Azure first creates the root management group which is the Tenant Root Group and then assigns the subscription under it. This group serves as the root for all entities you create from this point forward. Management groups are used to control access, policies, and…

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