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RBAC in Azure: A Practical Guide

What is azure rbac.

Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC) enables access management for Azure resources. It’s an authorization system built into the Azure Resource Manager. You can use Azure RBAC to define which specific users should be allowed access to Azure cloud resources and assign a set of privileges for each user group. Let’s learn more about the specifics.

Azure RBAC vs Azure ABAC

As mentioned earlier, Azure RBAC allows you to manage access to Azure resources, defining what users can do with resources and their access areas. It lets you use role definitions and role assignments to control access. However, it does not offer fine-grained access management and can be difficult when managing hundreds of role assignments.

Azure attribute-based access control (ABAC) works differently.

Azure ABAC allows you to add role assignment conditions to achieve fine-grained access control. It builds on Azure RBAC, letting you add attributes for specific actions. Each role assignment condition provides an additional, optional check to a role assignment. Once you set it up, the condition can filter down permissions provisioned as a part of the role definition and assignment. 

Azure RBAC Concepts

Azure rbac roles.

In Azure RBAC, a role definition is a set of permissions (role). It defines users’ actions, such as write, delete, and read. You can define high-level roles, such as an owner, or specific roles, such as a virtual machine (VM) reader.

Azure provides various built-in roles, including a virtual machine contributor role that allows users to create and manage VMs. If the built-in roles do not satisfy your requirements, you can also define Azure custom roles. You can use data actions to grant access to data stored in a specific object. 

The term scope refers to a set of resources with specific access. It enables you to grant the relevant security principal to a certain role. Limiting the scope means limiting the scope of resources at risk if the security principal is compromised.

Azure RBAC lets you specify a scope at four levels, including a management group level, a subscription level, a resource group level, and a resource level. Azure structures scopes in a parent-child relationship, with each hierarchy level making the scope more specific. It lets you assign roles at any of the four levels. However, note that the level you choose determines how the role is applied. 

Azure also lets you use management groups, a level of scope above subscriptions. However, management groups support complex hierarchies. The diagram below illustrates an example of a hierarchy of management groups and subscriptions.

Role Assignments

Role assignments enable you to attach role definitions to specific users, groups, service principals, or managed identities at a certain scope. When creating a role assignment, you grant specific access, and removing the assignment revokes this access.

Here is a diagram that illustrates an example of a role assignment: 

This example assigns a contributor role to the marketing group—only for the pharma-sales resource group. It enables all users in the marketing group to create or manage Azure resources in the pharma-sales resource group. However, it does not provide marketing users with access to resources external to the pharma-sales resource group.

Azure Groups

Role assignments are transitive for groups, allowing users to gain permissions assigned to groups. If user A is a member of group B and group B is a member of group C with its own role assignment, user A gets the permissions in group C’s role assignment.

Azure RBAC uses an additive model to prevent issues when users get several overlapping role assignments. You can see an example of this principle in the image below. A certain user is granted a reader role by a resource group and a contributor role at the subscription level. The sum of the reader and contributor permissions is the contributor role. The reader role assignment has no impact.

Best Practices for Azure RBAC

Only grant the access users need.

With Azure RBAC, you can create isolation between different teams, granting each team only the access they need to get the job done. 

Instead of granting unlimited permissions to everyone with an Azure subscription or resource, you can only allow specific actions within specific scopes. Avoid assigning broad roles, even if they seem more convenient at first. When you create a custom role, include only the permissions your users need. This ensures that there’s less risk if a principal account is compromised.

The following diagram shows the recommended pattern for granting permissions in Azure RBAC.

Use Azure AD Privileged Identity Management

To protect privileged accounts from malicious cyberattacks, Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management (PIM) can be used to reduce privilege issuance time and improve visibility through reports and alerts. PIM helps protect privileged accounts by providing temporary privileged access to Azure AD and Azure resources. Access is time-limited, after which privileges are automatically revoked.

Assign Roles Using Unique Role ID Instead of the Role Name

Role names may change over time, but the role ID always stays the same. Some common examples of changes to role names is when you are using your own custom role and decide to change the name, or when you are using a preview role that has (Preview) in the name. When the role is released from preview, it is automatically renamed.

To ensure consistency over time, it is a good idea to always assign users to a role ID when assigning roles using scripting or automation. This way, scripts won’t break if the name changes in the future. 

Assign Roles to Groups and Limit Subscription Owners

To make it easier to manage role assignments, do not assign roles directly to users. Instead, assign roles to groups. Assigning roles to groups instead of users minimizes the number of role assignments. Note that Azure imposes restrictions on the total role assignments allowed per subscription.

Microsoft recommends having a maximum of 3 owners for each Azure subscription, to reduce the likelihood of a breach by a compromised or malicious insider.

Cloud RBAC with Frontegg

Frontegg provides out of the box RBAC model implementation. Customers can now create their own roles and permissions which represent their product models and use cases. Additionally, Frontegg empowers the end users to create custom roles to represent their permissions model, without having to change a single line of code in the product. Sounds too good to be true? Try it out now.  

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Azure RBAC: role assignments and ARM templates

This post is about Azure's role assignments and ARM templates. Role assignments can be thought of as "permissions for Azure".

If you're deploying to Azure, there's a good chance you're using ARM templates to do so. Once you've got past "Hello World", you'll probably find yourself in a situation when you're deploying multiple types of resource to make your solution. For instance, you may be deploying an App Service alongside Key Vault and Storage .

One of the hardest things when it comes to deploying software and having it work, is permissions. Without adequate permissions configured, the most beautiful code can do nothing . Incidentally, this is a good thing. We're deploying to the web; many people are there, not all good. As a different kind of web-head once said:

Azure has great power and suggests you use it wisely .

Access management for cloud resources is critical for any organization that uses the cloud. Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC) helps you manage who has access to Azure resources, what they can do with those resources, and what areas they have access to. Designating groups or individual roles responsible for specific functions in Azure helps avoid confusion that can lead to human and automation errors that create security risks. Restricting access based on the need to know and least privilege security principles is imperative for organizations that want to enforce security policies for data access.

This is good advice. With that in mind, how can we ensure that the different resources we're deploying to Azure can talk to one another?

Role (up for your) assignments ​

The answer is roles. There's a number of roles that exist in Azure that can be assigned to users, groups, service principals and managed identities. In our own case we're using managed identity for our resources. What we can do is use "role assignments" to give our managed identity access to given resources. Arturo Lucatero gives a great short explanation of this:

Whilst this explanation is delightfully simple, the actual implementation when it comes to ARM templates is a little more involved. Because now it's time to talk "magic" GUIDs. Consider the following truncated ARM template, which gives our managed identity (and hence our App Service which uses this identity) access to Key Vault and Storage:

Let's take a look at these three variables:

The three variables above contain the subscription resource ids for the roles Storage Blob Data Contributor , Key Vault Secrets Officer and Key Vault Crypto Officer . The first question on your mind is likely: "what is ba92f5b4-2d11-453d-a403-e96b0029c9fe and where does it come from?" Great question! Well, each of these GUIDs represents a built-in role in Azure RBAC. The ba92f5b4-2d11-453d-a403-e96b0029c9fe represents the Storage Blob Data Contributor role.

How can I look these up? Well, there's two ways; there's an article which documents them here or you could crack open the Cloud Shell and look up a role by GUID like so:

Or by name like so:

As you can see, the Actions section of the output above (and in even more detail on the linked article ) provides information about what the different roles can do. So if you're looking to enable one Azure resource to talk to another, you should be able to refer to these to identify a role that you might want to use.

Creating a role assignment ​

So now we understand how you identify the roles in question, let's take the final leap and look at assigning those roles to our managed identity. For each role assignment, you'll need a roleAssignments resource defined that looks like this:

Let's go through the above, significant property by significant property (it's also worth checking the official reference here ):

• type - the type of role assignment we want to create, for a key vault it's "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/providers/roleAssignments" , for storage it's "Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/providers/roleAssignments" . The pattern is that it's the resource type, followed by "/providers/roleAssignments" .
• dependsOn - before we can create a role assignment, we need the service principal we desire to permission (in our case a managed identity) to exist
• properties.roleDefinitionId - the role that we're assigning, provided as an id. So for this example it's the keyVaultCryptoOfficer variable, which was earlier defined as [subscriptionResourceId('Microsoft.Authorization/roleDefinitions', 'ba92f5b4-2d11-453d-a403-e96b0029c9fe')] . (Note the use of the GUID)
• properties.principalId - the id of the principal we're adding permissions for. In our case this is a managed identity (a type of service principal).
• properties.scope - we're modifying another resource; our key vault isn't defined in this ARM template and we want to specify the resource we're granting permissions to.
• properties.principalType - the type of principal that we're creating an assignment for; in our this is "ServicePrincipal" - our managed identity.

There is an alternate approach that you can use where the type is "Microsoft.Authorization/roleAssignments" . Whilst this also works, it displayed errors in the Azure tooling for VS Code . As such, we've opted not to use that approach in our ARM templates.

Many thanks to the awesome John McCormick who wrangled permissions with me until we bent Azure RBAC to our will.

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Manage Azure Role Assignments Like a Pro with PowerShell

Today’s blog post is a little bit different. I have a couple of examples of how you can use PowerShell snippets and simple commandlets to get or set role assignmnets in your Azure Subscriptions.

PowerShell examples for managing Azure Role assignments

List all role assignments in a subscription, get all role assignments for a specific resource group, get all role assignments for a specific user, add a role assignment to a user, remove a role assignment for a user, remove all role assignments for a specific user, list all built-in roles, list all custom roles, create a custom role, update a custom role, delete a custom role, list all users or groups assigned to a specific role, list all permissions granted by a specific role, list all resource groups that a user has access to, create a role assignment for a service principal, powershell script to manage azure role assignments.

And now there is a script that combines some of these examples into one usable function:

I hope this was useful. Let me know if you liked the format of this blog and if you want me to include more of these examples.

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Defining RBAC Role Assignments in ARM Templates

It’s no secret I’m a big fan of Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates. Getting started with ARM templates is hard, but well worth the effort, and make it significantly easier to have reproduceable, consistent deployments of your Azure resources.

One thing that I had been feeling left out, however, was being able to assign permissions to Azure resources during creation. Azure’s Role-based Access Control (RBAC) mechanism is a powerful way to control who can manage and access your resources, and having to do this through scripting was possible, but cumbersome at times.

A few days ago, I realized that you can actually create RBAC role assignments through ARM templates just like any other resource. This capability is not new by any means, I just had missed it before!

Creating an assignment

To create an assignment, you need the following information:

• The ID of the role you want to assign. This is a long string that contains the subscription id and the role identifier (both GUIDs).
• The object ID of the user/group/service principal you want to grant access to.
• The scope at which you want to assign the role, which is going to be either a subscription, resource group, or resource id.

Here’s an example of creating such an assignment:

Here we grant the members of an Azure Active Directory group the Monitoring Contributor built-in role to the resource group the template is deployed to.

Also interesting here is that you don’t need to specify a location property in the resource.

Some gotchas

There are a couple of things to watch out for when doing this.

The first one is that to assign a role, you need the objectId of the AAD user/group/principal, rather than the name. This is cumbersome because there’s no way to resolve these within the ARM template itself, so you’ll always need to pass these as input parameters.

A more significant issue, however, is the name of the roleAssignment resource, which needs to be a unique GUID.

This is a problem if, for example, you’re assigning role permissions at the resource group or individual resource level, rather than globally at the subscription.

For example, in my case I was creating a template that would be used to deploy multiple copies of the same resources into different resource groups within the same subscription.

If the GUID that defines the role assignment name is hardcoded in the template, then each time I ran the template, the scope of the role assignment would get overwritten with the id of the last resource group it was deployed to. Clearly, this is undesirable.

What we need then, is a way to ensure that each deployment to a different resource group uses a different GUID for the role assignment, but at the same time, ensure that the same one is used when deploying to the same resource group.

Clearly, providing the assignment GUID as a parameter is an easy workaround, but very cumbersome.

A better workaround comes from the guid function! It takes one or more strings that are used to calculate a hash, very much like the uniquestring function; only this one generates a string in GUID format instead.

By using the guid function with the resource group id and some other consistent stuff as input, we can solve our problem in an elegant way:

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Guide to assigning an Employee Data Admin in Culture Amp. Manage user data & integrations without survey access.

A Message for Customers!

We're excited to introduce you to the new Employee data admin role.

Here's what you need to know:

Stage of Release: EAP (Early Access Program)

If you have any feedback about this feature or are interested in joining the EAP, please contact your coach or reply with "Ask a Person" in a Support Conversation to chat with a Product Support Specialist.

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This article will guide you through the process of assigning an Employee Data Admin. This role allows an employee to manage employee data and HRIS integrations, without providing access to other parts of Culture Amp such as surveys or performance reviews.

Step 1: Add the Employee as a User

Before you can assign the Employee Data Admin role, the employee must first be added as a user in your Culture Amp account. If the employee is already a user, you can skip this step.

Sign in to Culture Amp or use this link for EU login.

Click the Settings button.

Click Add User .

Enter the user's name, preferred name, and email address.

Click Save and Exit .

Step 2: Assign the Employee Data Admin Role

Now that the employee is a user in your Culture Amp account, you can assign them the Employee Data Admin role. To do this, follow these steps:

Click Settings .

Go to the Roles and Permissions menu.

Click Assign Role .

Search for and select the person to update their role.

Check the Employee Data Admin option in the Administration section.

Click Save .

Repeat for Additional Employee Data Admins

You can create as many Employee Data Admins as you need for your Culture Amp account. Simply follow the steps outlined above to add and assign the role to each employee.

Remove an Employee Data Admin Role

As an Account Administrator, you also have the ability to remove the Employee Data Admin role for specific individuals.

To remove an Employee Data Admin role, follow these steps:

Use the search box to find the person by name or email address.

Click Edit next to the user you are updating.

Uncheck the Employee data administrator box.

Click Update to save.

📌 Note: Only Account Administrators have the ability to add or remove roles. If you are not an Account Administrator and need assistance, please reach out to another Account Administrator within your organization. Alternatively, just reply with "Ask a Person" in a Support Conversation to speak with a Product Support Specialist.

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City Council assignments: How will heavily Republican Finance Committee affect Deegan's budget?

The makeup of City Council has not changed, but new committee assignments for members could have significant impacts for upcoming legislation. 

Committee assignments released Wednesday give an inside look as to how the new president, Randy White, views the responsibilities of his fellow council members.

Here is a breakdown of what committees do and their new structures: 

Who chooses the committee members? 

Each incoming City Council president, this year Republican and former firefighter Randy White , places members on committees. 

What do the committees do? 

The committees take the first look at legislation, introduced by either other council members, the mayor or government staff, and can propose changes. Sometimes, these changes can alter the scope, effect or monetary value behind the bill. 

Committees can also extend the amount of time before the full council votes on a bill by deferring it. 

Who leads each committee? 

Each of the committee chairs is a Republican, unlike last year when Ju’Coby Pittman, a Democrat, ran the Transportation, Energy & Utilities Committee. 

This year, the following council members chair each committee: 

• Neighborhoods, Community Services, Public Health & Safety: Joe Carlucci 
• Rules: Nick Howland 
• Finance: Ron Salem 
• Transportation, Energy & Utilities Committee: Will Lahnen
• Land Use & Zoning: Kevin Carrico 

The following council members co-chair each committee: 

• Neighborhoods, Community Services, Public Health & Safety: Chris Miller
• Rules: Terrance Freeman
• Finance: Terrance Freeman 
• Transportation, Energy & Utilities Committee: Ju’Coby Pittman
• Land Use & Zoning: Raul Arias 

How different are the committees this year from last year? 

One of the most significant changes will be Salem, the outgoing council president, as leader of the Finance Committee. Finance takes the largest committee hand in the budget process, giving Salem a chance to put his stamp on Deegan’s second opportunity to fund her administration’s priorities.

“The mayor proposes, the council disposes,” Salem has said on multiple occasions this year. 

The LUZ Committee did not change members or the chair, but junior council member Raul Arias will now be the vice-chair under Carrico.

 Meanwhile, the Neighborhoods Committee had a complete leadership change. Boylan and Lahnen, both moderate Republicans, were respectively the chair and vice chair last year. Now, Joe Carlucci and Chris Miller will hold the positions. 

What does the mayor's office say?

Phil Perry, a spokesperson for Deegan's office, told the Times-Union she would continue to collaborate with council members.

"Mayor Deegan has good relations across the City Council and will continue to work well with everybody just as she has been throughout this first year, which has seen significant accomplishments that would only be possible by working together," Perry said.

After council's vote Tuesday on the renovation agreement for EverBank Stadium, Deegan said she would like to see the remaining allocation of the community benefits agreement happen before council passes the full budget in October. Salem, now the finance chair, has said he wants to discuss the funds with the budget.

"We're anticipating the remainder of the community benefits agreement will go through the same Committee of the Whole process that the original stadium package went through," Perry said.

When will committees begin meeting? 

City Council will return from its summer break July 15. 

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Jay Shah confirms 2 names shortlisted for India coach job after T20 World Cup win

The bcci secretary jay shah has confirmed that 2 names have been shortlisted for the india coach job. the new coach will take up the role during the sri lanka tour, according to jay shah..

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• Shah also said a similar squad would be there for the Champions Trophy in 2025

The BCCI Secretary Jay Shah has confirmed that two names have been shortlisted for the role as the new India coach on July 1, Monday. Rahul Dravid's tenure as the India coach came to an end after the triumphant T20 World Cup campaign, with BCCI having started the process of taking in applications for the job from June 13.

According to reports, Gautam Gambhir has been considered to be the favourite to succeed Dravid as the new coach following his successful stint as mentor with KKR in IPL 2024. Gambhir himself has made it no secret he would be happy to take up the job recently .

Reports also stated that Gambhir had taken the interview for the role on June 18 . Shah has now confirmed that a new coach will join the team before the Sri Lanka series and the CAC had interviewed and shortlisted two names for the job. The BCCI Secretary, who is with the team in Barbados at the moment, also told PTI they would make the call after reaching Mumbai.

"Both coach and selector appointment will be made shortly. CAC has interviewed and shortlisted two names and after reaching Mumbai whatever they have decided we will go by that. VVS Laxman is going to Zimbabwe but new coach will join from Sri Lanka series," Shah told select media, referring to the Zimbabwe tour beginning July 6.

Seniors to be there for the Champions Trophy

Shah also hinted that the seniors would be present for the Champions Trophy, despite a new era kicking in Indian cricket. The BCCI Secretary said that the target is to win the World Test Championship and the Champions Trophy in 2025 and a similar squad would be fielded.

"The way this team is progressing, our target is to win World Test Championship final and Champions Trophy. There will be a similar squad playing there. The seniors will be there," said Shah.

14 ways to get better at using ChatGPT: Comprehensive prompt guide

• ChatGPT has taken the world by storm — but some struggle to get the chatbot to do what they want.
• Insider asked AI enthusiasts how they interact with the chatbot to produce desirable outputs.
• Here are 14 tips for crafting the best ChatGPT prompts, from assigning it a persona to being polite.

Since launching over a year ago, ChatGPT has become seemingly omnipresent.

At work, people have used the OpenAI product to develop code , generate marketing materials , and create lesson plans . It's become so popular that companies are now hiring workers who have ChatGPT expertise to boost their bottom lines. 

And in their everyday lives, people are turning to the chatbot for help with losing weight , landing dates , and delaying aging.

But ChatGPT doesn't always produce desirable outcomes, and the tech can be prone to errors and misinformation.

It all comes down to the prompts users put into ChatGPT. 

"If you really want to generate something that is going to be useful for you, you need to do more than just write a generic sentence," Jacqueline DeStefano-Tangorra, a consultant who uses ChatGPT to secure new contracts, told Insider . 

Insider sifted through AI research and asked AI enthusiasts, ChatGPT coaches, and workers who use the chatbot for tips on how to get ChatGPT to do what you want.

Here are 12 ways you can write better ChatGPT prompts. 

1. assign chatgpt a specific  role.

ChatGPT works best when you assign it a persona — such as a specific job role — Jason Gulya, an AI council chair at Berkeley College who teaches clients how to use ChatGPT, said.

Rob Cressy, the founder of the AI-coaching firm GPT Leaders, told Insider to "talk to ChatGPT like an employee" to help accomplish particular goals or tasks.

To do this, Gulya suggests that users write a prompt that includes a specific, concrete description of the persona you want the chatbot to take on. Begin your prompt with "act as a professor" or "act as a marketing professional," followed by a description of the desired outcome.

2. Be specific — and only give the bot one task at a time

Once you give ChatGPT a role, craft the prompt so it can accomplish a singular task such as writing a 300-word cover letter or generating a recipe for a protein-packed dinner.

"Don't ask it to do too much at once," Cressy said.

If you're a marketing professional, and you want ChatGPT to build a list of emails, Peggy Dean, an artist who runs a ChatGPT course for creatives , recommends crafting what she calls a "power prompt," a concise and detailed prompt.

If asking ChatGPT to brief a marketing campaign, she said she'd include target audiences, key features, and calls to action.

If asking the chatbot to come up with an email list and calls to action, she said she'd say:

"Pretend you are an expert email marketer and your client is a [role] specializing in [offerings] for [target audience]. Your goal is to build a robust email list in order to accomplish [goal]. Your client uses [platform(s)] to reach their audience. Come up with [details or quantity] ideal call to action ideas of [freebies or lead magnets] your client can provide."

"It's crucial to have a clear idea of what you hope to achieve," Dean told Insider. 

3. Refine your prompts based on a previous outputs

If ChatGPT's response isn't quite what you're looking for, Cressy said to build on its output by fine-tuning the initial prompt. He calls this process "peeling back an onion." 

"Don't be afraid to refine your prompts," DeStefano-Tangorra said. "If the initial output doesn't match your expectation, rephrase the prompt, add more detail, or clarify the context." 

If the answer to a prompt asking ChatGPT to "suggest a good book" is too vague, refine it to something like: "As someone who loves mystery novels with strong female leads, like Agatha Christie's Miss Marple series, can you suggest other similar books that I may enjoy?" 

4. Provide context 

ChatGPT prompts should include context such as historical information, user profiles, preferences, or any relevant details to guide its response, DeStefano-Tangorra said. The more specific, the better. 

Asking ChatGPT to "suggest dinner recipes," will lead to a generic output. Instead, DeStefano-Tangorra suggests tweaking that prompt to say: "As someone who loves trying out new cuisines and has a particular fondness of spicy food, can you suggest an exciting dinner menu for my next weekend get-together with my friends?"

If you want to apply ChatGPT to your business, Cressy suggests creating a "best-practices document" that includes details on who you are, what you do, and what your brand voice sounds like. That way, users can copy and paste the information into the chatbot whenever they start a new conversation. 

Instead of asking ChatGPT to "create me a marketing strategy" the prompt should say "I am a world-class [role] who helps [target audience] for business growth. Our brand voice is friendly, positive, inspiring, brand-safe, conversational. Create me a marketing strategy to help build my brand on Facebook and Instagram by leveraging my podcast." 

5. Break down the desired output into a series of steps

While it's best for prompts to be specific and include context, writing a long prompt can be counterproductive, Gulya said. 

"More often than not, a long mega-prompt does not give the desirable output," he said. 

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To avoid this, Gulya suggests breaking down the desired output into a series of steps. That way, if the chatbot generates errors, the user can pinpoint what exactly the chatbot may not understand. 

" This allows you to validate each step before proceeding, course-correcting when necessary," Gulya said. 

If the goal is to use ChatGPT to generate a widely read blog post, the user should ask the chatbot to first research which SEO terms will most likely make the article appear at the top of search-engine results. In a separate prompt, ask it to apply what it learned to the blog post.

6. Ask ChatGPT for advice on how to prompt it better 

To ensure your prompt is as thorough as it can be, Dean suggested asking ChatGPT what other details it needs from the user to produce the best output.

To do this, Dean suggests adding a line to your prompt that follows this template: "If I want to [desired outcome], what prompts should I share with ChatGPT in order to get the best results?" 

Once ChatGPT has generated an output, tell the chatbot what you like and dislike about the output and ask it to "request additional results, edits, or tweaks," she said.

7. Prioritize clarity and precision 

DeStefano-Tangorra suggests that ChatGPT users "explicitly outline your expectations within the prompt" by adding precise words. 

"Clear and specific prompts lead to more relevant and useful responses," she said. 

The prompt "compare and contrast using an oven versus a microwave for preparing dinner," should be tweaked to "can you compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of using a traditional oven versus a microwave for preparing a family dinner?" 

8. Use a thesaurus

To write your prompt with precision, Anna Bernstein, a prompt engineer at the generative-AI writing tool Copy.ai, suggests using a thesaurus to find the words that can increase your chances of getting what you want out of the chatbot. 

"Don't give up on a concept just because your first prompt didn't get the result you wanted," Bernstein previously told Insider . "Often, finding the right word or phrasing can unlock what you're doing."

9. Pay attention to verbs  

A thesaurus can help you find verbs that clearly express your intent. That way, the AI has a better chance of fully understanding your request, Bernstein said. 

She said that a prompt including the phrase "condense this" is stronger than "rewrite this to be shorter."

10. Be polite, but direct 

While ChatGPT users may have different conversational styles, Gulya said he finds that talking to the AI using polite, direct language — as if he's writing to a friend — yields the best results.

"Doing so puts me in a more collaborative, more flexible mindset," he said. 

When interacting with the chatbot for, say, advice on how college professors can enhance their skillsets, Gulya suggests writing flattering comments such as, "You're magnificent at seeing the root causes in faculty member's anxieties about artificial intelligence."

After the chatbot spits out a response you like, express gratitude by saying something like, "This is great. Thank you so much!" followed by a request to make revisions to its output.

11.Talk to ChatGPT with emotional language

If talking to ChatGPT like a friend doesn't produce desirable results, try adding some emotion to your prompts.  

A study conducted by a team of researchers from Microsoft, William & Mary, and research centers across Asia found that adding phrases like "This is very important to my career" and "You'd better be sure" to ChatGPT prompts yield better responses. 

ChatGPT users can also try writing prompts with phrases like "You'd better be sure," "Take pride in your work and give it your best," and "Remember that progress is made one step at a time. Stay determined and keep moving forward." 

12. Check and tweak the copy's tone and reading level 

If you're using ChatGPT to generate copy or captions for social media posts, make sure to tweak its tone so the content resonates with your target audience, Ashley Couto, a marketing professional who uses the chatbot to reduce her workload, told Business Insider.  

Couto finds that the best marketing copy reads at a fifth- or sixth-grade level, which includes "short sentences and paragraphs, a conversational tone, and simple language." 

To do this, Couto recommends asking ChatGPT to "change the reading level and tone" after it spits out a response. 

13. Feed ChatGPT an outline 

If you want ChatGPT to generate longer posts, Couto suggests giving the AI a specific structure and outline. She said the more specific you can be with your instructions, the better its output will be. 

Here's one prompt Couto uses to generate a company blog post:

"Following this story structure — 1. Capture the heart, 2. Set up a tension, 3. Resolve the tension, 4. Conclude by offering value — write a 1,000-word story at a grade-five reading level in the first person using the following information."

14. Include reference text 

Is ChatGPT making up answers that are factually incorrect? If so, adding bodies of text from trusted sources into the prompt may help eliminate these hallucinations. 

OpenAI's prompt guide suggests copying and pasting articles into ChatGPT, and then asking the chatbot to answer questions based on them.

An example of a prompt OpenAI provides is "Use the provided articles delimited by triple quotes to answer questions. If the answer cannot be found in the articles, write 'I could not find an answer.' After that, insert the text from the article below, followed by the questions you want ChatGPT to answer." 

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Quickstart: Assign an Azure role using an ARM template

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Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC) is the way that you manage access to Azure resources. In this quickstart, you create a resource group and grant a user access to create and manage virtual machines in the resource group. This quickstart uses an Azure Resource Manager template (ARM template) to grant the access.

An Azure Resource Manager template is a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) file that defines the infrastructure and configuration for your project. The template uses declarative syntax. You describe your intended deployment without writing the sequence of programming commands to create the deployment.

If your environment meets the prerequisites and you're familiar with using ARM templates, select the Deploy to Azure button. The template will open in the Azure portal.

Prerequisites

To assign Azure roles and remove role assignments, you must have:

• If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin.
• Microsoft.Authorization/roleAssignments/write and Microsoft.Authorization/roleAssignments/delete permissions, such as Role Based Access Control Administrator
• To assign a role, you must specify three elements: security principal, role definition, and scope. For this quickstart, the security principal is you or another user in your directory, the role definition is Virtual Machine Contributor , and the scope is a resource group that you specify.

Review the template

The template used in this quickstart is from Azure Quickstart Templates . The template has two parameters and a resources section. In the resources section, notice that it has the three elements of a role assignment: security principal, role definition, and scope.

The resource defined in the template is:

• Microsoft.Authorization/roleAssignments

Deploy the template

Sign in to the Azure portal .

Determine your email address that is associated with your Azure subscription. Or determine the email address of another user in your directory.

Open Azure Cloud Shell for PowerShell.

Copy and paste the following script into Cloud Shell.

Enter a resource group name such as ExampleGrouprg.

Enter an email address for yourself or another user in your directory.

Enter a location for the resource group such as centralus.

If necessary, press Enter to run the New-AzResourceGroupDeployment command.

The New-AzResourceGroup command creates a new resource group and the New-AzResourceGroupDeployment command deploys the template to add the role assignment.

You should see output similar to the following:

Review deployed resources

In the Azure portal, open the resource group you created.

In the left menu, click Access control (IAM) .

Click the Role assignments tab.

Verify that the Virtual Machine Contributor role is assigned to the user you specified.

Clean up resources

To remove the role assignment and resource group you created, follow these steps.

Enter the email address of the user with the role assignment to remove.

Enter the resource group name to remove such as ExampleGrouprg.

If necessary, press Enter to run the Remove-AzResourceGroup command.

Enter Y to confirm that you want to remove the resource group.

Tutorial: Grant a user access to Azure resources using Azure PowerShell

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How to do a role assignment for the resourcegroup with arm templates

I have tried

but it gives the following error

Deployment template validation failed: 'The template resource 'sf-gateway/Microsoft.Authorization/5e60879d-b9c0-4e11-9548-9d92ed244eef' for type 'Microsoft.Authorization/roleAssignments' at line '1' and column '3432' has incorrect segment lengths. A nested resource type must have identical number of segments as its resource name. A root resource type must have segment length one greater than its resource name. Please see https://aka.ms/arm-template/#resources for usage details.'. (Code: InvalidTemplate)

I dont fully understand whats needed to be changed.

I want to give the principal ownership over the resourcegroup

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You could get the template demo code from this link . If you create the template with VS you could get it directly from the template. It works correctly for me.

azuredeploy.parameters.json

Test Result:

The error is happening because the name has more segments, i.e. components demarcated with a slash, than the type, as explained in more detail here: Resolve errors for invalid template .

There's a related discussion here ; if you can get the GUID for the resource and pass that in for name, it will have fewer segments than the type.

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