Admin Account Lifecycle Management – Part 1: Automated Provisioning with Entra ID Governance

The lifecycles of admin accounts can be tricky to manage, because admin accounts are not regular user accounts – they have to be handled differently. You need to make sure, just like with regular users, that they are not over-privileged. Another thing to consider with admin accounts is their lifecycle. What happens when the regular … Read more

Using Entra ID Governance and Sentinel to assure user alignment with HR data

Have you ever asked yourself this question after setting up Microsoft Entra ID Lifecycle Workflows and API-driven user provisioning: “What happens if one of my colleagues changes a user attribute in Active Directory (AD), will Entra ID Governance correct it?” The answer to this question is: “No, it won’t”. Or like an IT consultant would … Read more

Assign Teams Phone number to users with Lifecycle Workflows in Entra ID Governance

When new employees are about to start in a company, one of the tasks that needs to be done before the employees have its first day is to assign a phone number to them, so they are able to make and receive phone call in their everyday work. If you are using Microsoft Teams in … Read more

Using API-driven user provisioning with an Azure SQL database as a source of truth

Automating API-Driven User Provisioning with an Azure SQL Database. This post guides you through setting up an Azure SQL database and, integrating it with your HR system’s API, and then automating user creation and updates in Active Directory using API-driven provisioning to on-premises Active Directory

Modifying the attribute mapping in API-driven provisioning to on-premises Active Directory

This blog post is a small continuation of the blog post about Getting started with API-driven Inbound User Provisioning to On-Premises AD, but in this blog, I’m going to show you how to modify the API and Active Directory mapping of attributes when you are provisioning users. This is useful if want to customize mapping … Read more

Getting started with API-driven Inbound User Provisioning to On-Premises AD

API-driven Inbound User Provisioning to On-Premises AD is a feature that I personally have been really excited about for quite some time. I started working with it when it was in public preview around June 2023 and it went to General Availability in early 2024.API-driven Inbound User Provisioning is streamlined way of managing users in … Read more