A way for a partner to administer a customer's tenant with only the rights needed and only for a limited period, once the customer agrees. It takes over from the older, broader delegated admin model.
Also called granular delegated admin privileges.
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Terms in this definition
- RAMP
The approach used by the Cloud Adoption Framework's Manage methodology to structure cloud operations: teams, duties, processes and tools. It divides what the central platform handles from what each workload handles.
- Tenant
A trusted, dedicated Microsoft Entra ID instance that stores the users, groups and app registrations of one organisation. A subscription trusts only a single tenant, although a tenant can be trusted by several subscriptions.
- OVER
Gives a T-SQL window function its window: PARTITION BY, ORDER BY and, if wanted, a ROWS or RANGE frame. Rankings and running totals can then be worked out while every row is kept.
Related terms
- DAP
The older CSP model for partner access, which handed partners permanent, wide-ranging administrator rights in customer tenants, Global Administrator included. It is being phased out and replaced by granular delegated admin privileges (GDAP).