Daily.Entra.NewsA cross-product view of Microsoft Entra changes related to Governance.
When you create a new Microsoft Entra tenant using the secure add-on tenant creation feature, you're prompted to select an existing subscription and resource group from your billing account. When you create your new tenant, Microsoft generates a new billing asset called **Entra ID Free** under that subscription and resource group, which links to the newly created tenant.
Learn how to assign or remove the application permissions and roles that the Tenant Configuration Management service uses to create snapshots and run monitors
Learn how to create a configuration monitor in Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance to evaluate a tenant against a configuration baseline and report drift
Learn how to securely create a governed Microsoft Entra workforce tenant and establish governance from your home tenant.
Learn how to create configuration snapshots in Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance to capture tenant configuration for baselines or audit evidence
Learn how to deploy Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance from setup through tenant discovery, governance, and configuration monitoring
This article walks you through managing unsponsored guests using the **Unsponsored guest cleanup (Preview)** workflow template.
Learn how to view monitor results and configuration drifts and manage configuration monitors in Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance
Learn about cross-tenant delegated administration and the GDAP-based permission model for managing tenants in Microsoft Entra.
In the message body, you can customize the email text to personalize it for each recipient. You can optionally include built-in user attributes, custom security attributes, directory extensions, and on-premises extension attributes by embedding them in the text. Before the email is sent, the placeholders are replaced with the actual user information.
- Manage the governed tenant without needing a local or business-to-business (B2B) account in that tenant.
Learn how to interpret tenant discovery data, signals, and metrics in Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance to assess related tenants
Learn how to use Microsoft Graph to retrieve the underlying users and applications behind Tenant Governance related tenant discovery signals.
With customized emails, you're able to include dynamic attributes within the subject and body to personalize these emails. You can include built-in user attributes, custom security attributes, directory extensions, and on-premises extension attributes. The list of dynamic attributes that can be included are as follows:
- Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync agent must be installed on a domain-joined server. We recommend using Windows Server 2025 or Windows Server 2022. You can also deploy Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync on older Windows Server versions that are in extended support; however, support for this configuration may require [a paid support program](/lifecycle/policies/fixed#extended-support).
Learn how Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance discovers related tenants through identity, application, and billing signals across your organization
Learn how to use cross-tenant delegated administration to sign in to and manage governed tenants using your governing tenant credentials
1. Under the **Days of inactivity**, enter the number of days you want the trigger to run for if exceeded, and then select **Next**.
The **Pre-Offboard inactive users** template is designed to configure tasks that must be completed before offboarding inactive users.
Learn how to use the What-if tool in Lifecycle Workflows to simulate workflow execution and preview results without impacting actual users.
Learn how Microsoft Entra ID is licensed for guest users.
Learn about governance policy templates and how to use them to enforce consistent governance across tenants in Microsoft Entra
Microsoft Entra will block new assignments to Partner Tier1 and Tier2 Support roles starting August 3, 2026, as these roles are retired. Existing assignments remain valid. Admins should update scripts and use alternative roles like User Administrator. No impact if these roles aren't used.
Assign Azure RBAC roles to access packages and catalogs in Microsoft Entra Entitlement Management. Learn how to manage access with least privilege principles.
Learn how to set tenant-wide and workflow-specific execution limits and manage quarantined workflows in Lifecycle Workflows to prevent large-scale impact.
This article a tutorial on how to provision users and groups using cloud sync.
This article a tutorial on how to provision users and groups from and managed in Microsoft Entra ID to Active Directory.
Learn how to integrate Darwinbox HR with Microsoft Entra ID to automate user provisioning, manage lifecycle workflows, and streamline HR-driven processes.
List Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery snapshots that can help recover directory objects used by Global Secure Access.
Learn how to set tenant-wide and workflow-specific execution limits and manage quarantined workflows in Lifecycle Workflows to prevent large-scale impact.
1. Assign all discovered users to a specific access package:
Learn how to configure whether requestors can see approver details for pending access package requests in the My Access portal at the tenant or package level.
In entitlement management, you can see who is assigned to access packages, their policy, status, and identity lifecycle (preview). If an access package has an appropriate policy, you can also directly assign identities to an access package. This article describes how to view, add, and remove assignments for access packages.
Guest users that already existed in your tenant by being invited are ungoverned. After an ungoverned guest that requests access packages lose their last access package assignment, they'll remain in the tenant indefinitely. If there are guests that have an access package assignment, and only need access from that access package, and there's no other need for them to remain in the tenant, you can convert them to be governed during the time they have that access package assignment. You can directly convert those ungoverned users to be governed by using the **Mark Guests as Governed** functionality in the top menu bar of an access package.
To determine the least privileged role for a task, you can also reference [Least privileged roles by task in Microsoft Entra ID](../identity/role-based-access-control/delegate-by-task.md#entitlement-management-least-privileged-roles).
This article describes how to reprocess assignments in an existing access package.
- The ability to see active access package assignment of all of their direct reports.
Learn how to recreate Microsoft Copilot Studio agents with Microsoft Entra Agent ID for enhanced governance and security. No in-place migration path exists today.
Learn about new features and updates in Microsoft Entra Agent ID at general availability, including non-Microsoft integrations, migration guides, and enterprise governance.
Learn how to use Account Discovery to find and categorize existing user accounts in target applications, match them to Microsoft Entra ID users, and prepare for provisioning governance.
This article explains how access packages provide governance for agent identity access to resources.
Learn ways to identify app risk levels, stop breaches and leaks in real time, and use app connectors to take advantage of provider APIs for visibility and governance.
In this article, you learn how to integrate SCC LifeCycle with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate SCC LifeCycle with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:
This article a tutorial on how to provision users and groups using cloud sync.
This article a tutorial on how to provision users and groups using connect sync.
This article a tutorial on how to provision users and groups from and managed in Workday.
This article a tutorial on how to provision users and groups from on-premises to cloud using MIM.
This article a tutorial on how to provision users and groups to AD with Workday.
This article a tutorial on how to provision users and groups to Active Directory using MIM.
Learn how to apply sensitivity labels to cloud security groups in Microsoft Entra ID for consistent classification and governance.
This article describes use cases Microsoft Entra ID Governance.
Learn how to recreate Microsoft Copilot Studio agents with Microsoft Entra Agent ID for enhanced governance and security. No in-place migration path exists today.
Learn about new features and updates in Microsoft Entra Agent ID at general availability, including non-Microsoft integrations, migration guides, and enterprise governance.
Learn how to configure custom extensions in Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM) to integrate custom business logic into role activation workflows.
Learn how to configure single sign-on between Microsoft Entra ID and SCC LifeCycle.
Learn how to configure single sign-on between Microsoft Entra ID and Smart Global Governance.
Learn how to integrate Darwinbox HR with Microsoft Entra ID to automate user provisioning, manage lifecycle workflows, and streamline HR-driven processes.
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Microsoft Entra Agent ID requires every [agent identity](/entra/agent-id/agent-identities) and [agent identity blueprint](/entra/agent-id/agent-blueprint) to have at least one sponsor. A sponsor is a human user, or supported group, that holds business accountability for the agent's lifecycle, such as deciding when the agent is no longer needed, approving extensions when access expires, and authorizing suspension during incidents. A sponsor is different from an owner, which designates the human users responsible for technical operations and incident response.
Microsoft Entra Agent ID introduced two identity types: [agent identities](/entra/agent-id/agent-identities) and [agent identity blueprint principals](/entra/agent-id/agent-blueprint). These identity objects derive from service principals, and so carry the same requirements and best practices for ownership, lifecycle management, and cleanup as any service principal. Blueprint principals are the provisioning surface from which agent identities are created and can hold grants that propagate to child agents. Having a designated owner for these objects helps in two important areas of agent identity management:
1. Select **Next: Resource roles**. On the **Resource roles** tab, you select the resource roles to include in the access package. Access packages for agent identities can have security group memberships, directory roles, or API permissions as resource roles. For more information, see [add a group](/entra/id-governance/entitlement-management-access-package-resources#add-a-group-or-team-resource-role), [add a Microsoft Entra role](/entra/id-governance/entitlement-management-access-package-resources#add-a-microsoft-entra-role-assignment), and [add an API permission](/entra/id-governance/entitlement-management-access-package-resources#add-an-api-permission-preview). Don't add application roles, SAP roles, or SharePoint Online site roles to an access package for agent identities.
Learn how to recreate Microsoft Copilot Studio agents with Microsoft Entra Agent ID for enhanced governance and security. No in-place migration path exists today.
1. Browse to **ID Governance** > **Entitlement management** > **Access packages**.
In SAP IDM, the Identity Store represents identity data through entry types such as `MX_PERSON`, `MX_ROLE`, or `MX_PRIVILEGE`.
Learn how to view, add, and remove assignments for an access package in entitlement management.
Lifecycle Workflows allow you to automate the updating of user attributes for users in your organization. You're able to customize the task name and description for this task in the Microsoft Entra admin center.
This article explains how access packages provide governance for agent identity access to resources.
Learn about new features and updates in Microsoft Entra Agent ID at general availability, including third-party integrations, migration guides, and enterprise governance.
Learn how Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance automatically establishes governance relationships when you create add-on tenants using secure tenant creation.
Learn about configuration management capabilities in Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance, including baselines and drift monitoring
Learn how to create a new Microsoft Entra tenant using the secure add-on tenant creation workflow in Tenant Governance
Learn how to create and configure a tenant configuration monitor in Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance to track configuration drift
Learn about cross-tenant delegated administration and how it enables centralized management across tenants in Microsoft Entra
Learn how to deploy Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance from setup through tenant discovery, governance, and configuration monitoring
Learn how to enable tenant discovery in Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance to identify related tenants across your organization
Learn about governance policy templates and how to use them to enforce consistent governance across tenants in Microsoft Entra
Learn about governance relationships and how they enable centralized management of tenants in Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance
Learn how to interpret tenant discovery data, signals, and metrics in Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance to assess related tenants
Learn which Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance features are available with each license tier, including P1, P2, and ID Governance
1. Select a role you want to assign, select a member you want to assign to the role, and then select **Next**.
Learn how Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance discovers related tenants through identity, application, and billing signals across your organization
Learn how to view monitor results and detect configuration drifts in Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance using the admin center
Learn how to set up a governance relationship between a governing and governed tenant using the handshake process in Microsoft Entra
Learn how to set up the required application permissions and roles for tenant monitoring in Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance
Learn about the signals and metrics used in Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance to identify and evaluate related tenants
Learn how to terminate a governance relationship between tenants in Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance and understand what resources are removed
Learn how to update an existing governance relationship between a governing and governed tenant in Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance
Learn how to update or delete a configuration monitor in Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance when baselines or requirements change
Learn how to use cross-tenant delegated administration to sign in to and manage governed tenants using your governing tenant credentials
| Access Reviews | [Access Review – inactive users](../identity/users/clean-up-stale-guest-accounts.md#monitor-guest-accounts-at-scale-with-inactive-guest-insights) | Bill when guest user is included in review.<br><br>**API**<br> https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identityGovernance/accessReviews/definitions where inactive guest reviews are included in the policy for a group resource. | Decision item summary. |
You can use Privileged Identity Management (PIM) in Microsoft Entra ID to have just-in-time membership in the group or just-in-time ownership of the group.
With Privileged Identity Management (PIM) and Microsoft Entra ID, you can configure activation of group membership and ownership to require approval. You can also choose users or groups from your Microsoft Entra organization as delegated approvers.
Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM) enables you to configure roles so that they require approval for activation, and choose users or groups from your Microsoft Entra organization as delegated approvers. Select two or more approvers for each role to reduce workload for the Privileged Role Administrator. Delegated approvers have 24 hours to approve requests. If a request isn't approved within 24 hours, then the eligible user must resubmit a new request. The 24-hour approval time window isn't configurable.
Privileged Identity Management (PIM) in Microsoft Entra ID allows you to configure roles to require approval for activation, and choose one or multiple users or groups as delegated approvers. Delegated approvers have 24 hours to approve requests. If a request isn't approved within 24 hours, then the eligible user must re-submit a new request. The 24-hour approval time window isn't configurable.
With Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM), you can manage the built-in Azure resource roles, and custom roles, including (but not limited to):
In Microsoft Entra ID, you can use Privileged Identity Management (PIM) to manage just-in-time membership in the group or just-in-time ownership of the group.
With Microsoft Entra ID, a Global Administrator can make **permanent** Microsoft Entra admin role assignments. These role assignments can be created using the [Microsoft Entra admin center](~/identity/role-based-access-control/permissions-reference.md) or using [PowerShell commands](/powershell/module/azuread/#directory_roles).
When working with your organization's groups in Privileged Identity Management (PIM), you can view activity, activations, and audit history for Microsoft Entra group membership or ownership changes.
In Microsoft Entra ID, you can use Privileged Identity Management (PIM) to manage just-in-time membership in the group or just-in-time ownership of the group. Use groups to provide access to Microsoft Entra roles, Azure roles, and various other scenarios. To manage a Microsoft Entra group in PIM, you must bring it under management in PIM.
Privileged Role Administrators can review privileged access once an [access review starts](./pim-create-roles-and-resource-roles-review.md). Privileged Identity Management (PIM) in Microsoft Entra ID automatically sends an email that prompts users to review their access. If a user doesn't receive an email, you can send them the instructions for [how to perform an access review](./pim-perform-roles-and-resource-roles-review.md).
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Privileged Identity Management (PIM) generates alerts when there's suspicious or unsafe activity in your organization in Microsoft Entra ID. When an alert is triggered, it shows up on the Alerts page.
Privileged Identity Management (PIM) generates alerts when there's suspicious or unsafe activity in your organization in Microsoft Entra ID. When an alert is triggered, it shows up on the Privileged Identity Management dashboard. Select the alert to see a report that lists the users or roles that triggered the alert.
The need for access to privileged Azure resource and Microsoft Entra roles by your users changes over time. To reduce the risk associated with stale role assignments, you should regularly review access. You can use Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM) to create access reviews for privileged access to Azure resource and Microsoft Entra roles. You can also configure recurring access reviews that occur automatically. This article describes how to create one or more access reviews.
You can use Privileged Identity Management (PIM) in Microsoft Entra ID, to improve the protection of your Azure resources. This helps:
If you're starting out using Privileged Identity Management (PIM) in Microsoft Entra ID to manage role assignments in your organization, you can use the **Discovery and insights (preview)** page to get started. This feature shows you who is assigned to privileged roles in your organization and how to use PIM to quickly change permanent role assignments into just-in-time assignments. You can view or make changes to your permanent privileged role assignments in **Discovery and insights (preview)**. It's an analysis tool and an action tool.
Privileged Identity Management (PIM) lets you know when important events occur in your Microsoft Entra organization, such as when a role is assigned or activated. Privileged Identity Management keeps you informed by sending you and other participants email notifications. These emails might also include links to relevant tasks, such as activating or renewing a role. This article describes what these emails look like, when they are sent, and who receives them.
Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM) provides controls to manage the access and assignment lifecycle for Azure resources. Administrators can assign roles using start and end date-time properties. When the assignment end approaches, Privileged Identity Management sends email notifications to the affected users or groups. It also sends email notifications to administrators of the resource to ensure that appropriate access is maintained. Assignments might be renewed and remain visible in an expired state for up to 30 days, even if access isn't extended.
Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM) provides controls to manage the access and assignment lifecycle for roles in Microsoft Entra ID. Administrators can assign roles using start and end date-time properties. When the assignment end approaches, Privileged Identity Management sends email notifications to the affected users or groups. It also sends email notifications to Microsoft Entra administrators to ensure that appropriate access is maintained. Assignments might be renewed and remain visible in an expired state for up to 30 days, even if access isn't extended.
Privileged Identity Management (PIM) in Microsoft Entra ID provides controls to manage the access and assignment lifecycle for group membership and ownership. Administrators can assign start and end date-time properties for group membership and ownership. When the assignment end approaches, Privileged Identity Management sends email notifications to the affected users or groups. It also sends email notifications to administrators of the resource to ensure that appropriate access is maintained. Assignments might be renewed and remain visible in an expired state for up to 30 days, even if access isn't extended.
Privileged Identity Management (PIM) simplifies how enterprises manage privileged access to resources in Microsoft Entra ID, and other Microsoft online services like Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Intune. Follow the steps in this article to perform reviews of access to roles.
The following table provides guidance on using the new PowerShell cmdlets in the newer Azure PowerShell module.
