A property on Microsoft Entra users, set to Member or Guest, describing how the person relates to the organisation. It says nothing about their sign-in method or their roles.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains UserType in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- property
In VCF Operations, an attribute describing how an object is configured, such as its vCPU count. Unlike a metric, it captures state rather than performance over time, and it can feed symptom definitions, views, dashboards and reports.
- 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.
- Set
Secret permission in Key Vault for writing secrets; some older material refers to it as Create.
Related terms
- Guest user
Entra account whose
UserTypeis Guest, created when a B2B invitation is accepted; its UPN takes the #EXT# form, but that is not what the person signs in with. - Internal guest
Before B2B, partners were often given an account in the host tenant marked with a UserType of Guest. Such users can be invited to B2B collaboration so they sign in with credentials of their own, and their object stays the same.