Automation in Microsoft Entra ID Governance that carries out onboarding, role-change and offboarding steps (say, emailing a new hire, putting someone in groups or removing a licence) when a trigger such as their start date arrives.
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Terms in this definition
- Microsoft Entra ID Governance
Set of features, and the licence for them, covering lifecycle workflows, entitlement management and access reviews.
- 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.
- Azure Functions trigger
Every function is started by exactly one thing. That thing might be a web call over HTTP, a schedule, the arrival of a blob, a message landing in a queue or a change in a database.
Related terms
- Custom extension
Lets a Lifecycle Workflows or entitlement management process hand off to an Azure Logic App, for instance when access is requested, approved or assigned. In launch and continue mode nothing waits; launch and wait instead holds the process until the Logic App replies with a resume call.
- JML
Joiner, mover, leaver: the three lifecycle phases in which a new starter needs access, someone changing role needs it adjusted and a departing person needs it taken away. Lifecycle workflows can automate the work at each phase.