Optional Microsoft Entra user object tied one-to-one to an agent identity, for services such as a mailbox, Teams or OneDrive that expect a user. No password or passkey exists for it, and privileged admin roles cannot be assigned to it.
Also called agent user.
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Terms in this definition
- Microsoft Entra
The umbrella brand covering Microsoft's identity and network access portfolio. Internet Access, Private Access, External ID and ID Governance all belong to it, built on top of the core directory service, Entra ID.
- Chat message roles
Labels on chat messages: instructions go under system, the person's input under user, the model's previous answers under assistant, and results returned by a called tool under tool (or function).
- Agent identity
Service principal of a special kind representing an AI agent, holding no credentials itself. It can act on its own using app-only permissions or for a user using delegated ones; Conditional Access offers only block, not grant controls, for it.
- OneDrive
Every licensed Microsoft 365 user is given private cloud storage here for work files, which sync across their devices. Data for a department or the whole organisation belongs in SharePoint, not here.
- EXPECT
Sets a data quality rule on a dataset in a SQL pipeline. To discard failing rows, add
ON VIOLATION DROP ROW; to halt everything,ON VIOLATION FAIL UPDATE; with neither, those rows are kept and recorded in the logs. - Passkey
A passwordless sign-in credential based on FIDO that resists phishing. The private half of the key pair never leaves the person's device or hardware key, while the website or app stores just the public half; a passkey may be synced across devices or tied to a single one.