Connector group

In the Ultra Transcenders books

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Each book explains Connector group in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

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.

• App protection policy

  A set of Intune rules on managed apps that safeguards organisational data, for example by demanding a PIN or preventing copy-paste and save-as into personal apps. It works whether or not the device is enrolled.

• ELT

  Extract, load, transform: raw data lands in the target system first and is transformed there. See ETL for the opposite order.

• HA

  High availability means a service keeps running despite local failures, for instance by spreading replicas across zones.

• Microsoft Entra application proxy

  Makes on-premises web applications reachable from outside using a connector that only makes outbound connections, so neither a VPN nor open inbound ports are required.

• Share

  In OpenSharing, the container you fill with tables, views, volumes, models and notebooks for recipients. You need CREATE SHARE on the metastore to make one; add a schema and all its assets, including later ones, go with history.

Related terms

• Private network connector

  A small agent on a Windows Server inside your network that only connects outbound, on ports 80 and 443, to application proxy and Microsoft Entra Private Access. Grouping several into a connector group keeps access available.

• Quick Access

  Gives VPN-style reach to whole IP ranges and FQDNs through a connector group, as a first move before you publish apps one at a time in Microsoft Entra Private Access. If a per-app Global Secure Access app overlaps it, the per-app app is used.