Agent installed on-premises that Entra cloud provisioning uses to create users in Active Directory.
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Terms in this definition
- Agent
A specialised form of Microsoft Copilot set up for one particular job, pairing instructions with knowledge and skills. You can create one in Copilot Studio, SharePoint or Agent Builder, and administrators control them from the Microsoft 365 admin center.
- CRUD
Shorthand for create, read, update and delete, the four basic things you do with data. Data-plane roles in Azure Cosmos DB, for instance, authorise those operations on items.
- AD
Short for Active Directory, the directory service built into Windows Server (AD DS). Entra Connect synchronises on-premises forests to Microsoft Entra ID.
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