Short for System for Cross-domain Identity Management, a standard for user provisioning. API-driven inbound provisioning in Microsoft Entra accepts its bulk requests.
Also called System for Cross-domain Identity Management.
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Each book explains SCIM in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Standard deployment type
A Foundry deployment type billed per token that keeps processing of prompts and responses inside the Azure geography of the resource, meeting data residency needs at lower volumes.
- 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).
- API-driven inbound provisioning
Inbound Microsoft Entra provisioning in which an app or script submits SCIM bulk requests built from any HR source, a CSV file for instance. The ECMA connector, by contrast, provisions outbound.
- Microsoft Entra
The umbrella brand covering Microsoft's identity and network access portfolio. Internet Access, Private Access, External ID and ID Governance all belong to it, built on top of the core directory service, Entra ID.