Microsoft Entra Agent ID
FundamentalsSecurity For Ai Overview
In brief
The documentation now expands MCP, A2A, and OBO on first use to improve clarity and retrievability.
What Entra admins need to know
No administrator action is required; this is a terminology clarification, not a documented product change.
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Register and manage agents: Create and manage agent identity blueprints as templates and agent identities as individual instances with parent-child relationships, enabling centralized metadata management and automatic organization into security collections.
Assign secure, scalable identities: The Microsoft Entra Agent identity platform enables you to assign identities to agents, autodiscover them across your organization, and manage all agent metadata in one place including capabilities, tasks, and protocols. It provides agent-to-agent discovery and authorization based on standard protocols such as
MCPModel Context Protocol (MCP) andA2A.agent-to-agent (A2A).Log and monitor agent activity: All authentication and actions performed by agents are logged in Microsoft Entra ID and viewable through the Microsoft Entra admin center for compliance and audit purposes.
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Microsoft Entra Agent ID enables organizations to: - **Register and manage agents**: Create and manage agent identity blueprints as templates and agent identities as individual instances with parent-child relationships, enabling centralized metadata management and automatic organization into security collections. -- **Assign secure, scalable identities**: The [Microsoft Entra Agent identity platform](identity-platform/what-is-agent-id-platform.md) enables you to assign identities to agents, autodiscover them across your organization, and manage all agent metadata in one place including capabilities, tasks, and protocols. It provides agent-to-agent discovery and authorization based on standard protocols such as MCP and A2A.+- **Assign secure, scalable identities**: The [Microsoft Entra Agent identity platform](identity-platform/what-is-agent-id-platform.md) enables you to assign identities to agents, autodiscover them across your organization, and manage all agent metadata in one place including capabilities, tasks, and protocols. It provides agent-to-agent discovery and authorization based on standard protocols such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agent-to-agent (A2A). - **Log and monitor agent activity**: All authentication and actions performed by agents are logged in Microsoft Entra ID and viewable through the Microsoft Entra admin center for compliance and audit purposes.