A Microsoft Entra admin role that can give licences to and take them from users and groups, change a user's usage location and re-run group-based licence processing.
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Terms in this definition
- Microsoft Entra admin
Set on an Azure SQL managed instance or logical server, this is the single Entra principal (a user, group, managed identity or service principal) able to log in to all its databases and to add further Entra users.
- Role
How an actor normally or expectedly behaves, or the part a person takes in a process. A single actor may hold more than one role.
- 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).
- Usage location
A user attribute that exists only in the cloud (AD sync doesn't supply it) and is required before a licence can be assigned directly. Group-based licensing once required it too, but now defaults to the tenant's location.
- Licence
What entitles one particular user to the services a subscription offers. Each product licence is made up of several service plans (one per app or service), and before giving it to someone an admin has to record that user's usage location.