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.
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Terms in this definition
- Actor
Anyone or anything, whether a person, an organisation or a system, that fills at least one role and initiates or participates in activities. It may sit within the organisation or outside it.
Related terms
- Access package assignment manager
An entitlement management role, scoped to a catalog, whose holders can add users to or remove them from access packages that already exist. They cannot create or change the packages themselves or the policies attached to them.
- Access package manager
Holders of this catalog-level entitlement management role design new access packages, alter existing ones and set their policies, drawing only on resources that are already in that catalog; bringing extra resources in is beyond them.
- Account Owner
The Enterprise Agreement billing role in charge of creating and looking after subscriptions within a single EA account, of which there is only ever one per account. When an enrolment transitions to an MCA, this person is given the Azure subscription creator role on an invoice section.
- AcrPull
Data-plane role built into Azure Container Registry that allows reading tags and pulling images. Assign it to whichever identity performs the pull.
- AcrPush
Azure Container Registry built-in role for pushing as well as pulling images. It is the narrowest role that permits pushes, though signing images is outside it.
- AcrQuarantineWriter
Azure Container Registry built-in role belonging to the quarantine feature: it lets an identity push quarantined images and update their quarantine status. It has nothing to do with signing.
- Active assignment
Type of PIM assignment that grants the role straight away, with no activation step, for as long as the assignment lasts.
- AD CS
Short for Active Directory Certificate Services, a Windows Server role that operates a private certificate authority. Because the certificates it issues are not publicly trusted, services needing a public CA, such as Front Door bring-your-own-certificate, refuse them.