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Managed identities for Azure resources provide Azure services with an automatically managed identity in Microsoft Entra ID. You can use this identity to authenticate to any service that supports Microsoft Entra authentication without having credentials in your code.
In this article, you'll learn how to view the service principal of a managed identity.
Note
Service principals are enterprise applications.
Prerequisites
- If you're unfamiliar with managed identities for Azure resources, see What are managed identities for Azure resources?.
- If you don't already have an Azure account, sign up for a Trial before continuing.
- Enable system assigned identity on a virtual machine or application.
View the service principal for a managed identity using the Azure portal
Sign in to the Azure portal.
In the search box, Enter Microsoft Entra ID. Under Services, Select Microsoft Entra ID and then select Enterprise applications.
Under Application Type, choose All Applications and then select Apply.
In the search filter box, type the name of the Azure resource that has managed identities enabled or choose it from the list.
Next steps
For more information about managed identities, see Managed identities for Azure resources.
View the service principal of a managed identity using Azure CLI
If you prefer to run CLI reference commands locally, install the Azure CLI. If you're running on Windows or macOS, consider running Azure CLI in a Docker container. For more information, see How to run the Azure CLI in a Docker container.
If you're using a local installation, sign in to the Azure CLI by using the az login command. To finish the authentication process, follow the steps displayed in your terminal. For other sign-in options, see Sign in with the Azure CLI.
When you're prompted, install the Azure CLI extension on first use. For more information about extensions, see Use extensions with the Azure CLI.
Run az version to find the version and dependent libraries that are installed. To upgrade to the latest version, run az upgrade.
The following command demonstrates how to view the service principal of a virtual machine (VM) or application with managed identity enabled. Replace <Azure resource name> with your own values.
az ad sp list --display-name <Azure resource name>
Next steps
For more information on managing Microsoft Entra service principals, see Azure CLI ad sp.
View the service principal for a managed identity using PowerShell
To run the example scripts, you can run scripts locally by installing the latest version of Azure PowerShell, then sign in to Azure using Connect-AzAccount -Environment AzureChinaCloud.
The following command demonstrates how to view the service principal of a virtual machine (VM) or application with system assigned identity enabled. Replace <Azure resource name> with your own values.
Get-AzADServicePrincipal -DisplayName <Azure resource name>
Next steps
For more information on viewing Microsoft Entra service principals using PowerShell, see Get-AzADServicePrincipal.