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Microsoft Entra lifecycle management

Automate and simplify the identity and access lifecycle with Microsoft Entra lifecycle workflows.

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Control the identity lifecycle

Design automated workflows to ensure new employees are productive immediately—and accesses are removed when they leave.

Onboard new employees faster

Use customizable workflow templates to enable access right away for new team members so they become productive on day one.

Finalize role changes promptly

Quickly update, add, or remove access to resources when a team member’s role changes.

Offboard with confidence

Ensure security and compliance for the organization, and peace of mind for former team members with timely access deprovisioning.

Reduce the possibility of errors

Automate repetitive, manual identity lifecycle tasks and reduce the risk of errors so the IT team can focus on higher value work.

Learn how lifecycle management software helps HR and IT teams work in sync

Capabilities

Automate and manage the entire digital identity lifecycle process.

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Simplify access management with HR-driven provisioning

Automatically provision or deprovision user access on signals from HR systems such as Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Aquera.

Tasks for onboarding a new employee.

Use templates to automate common tasks

Automate the identity and access tasks for user changes, such as the first day for new users, and role, team, or location updates for employees.

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Provision users and groups to cloud apps

Automatically provision or deprovision users and roles in cloud apps from Microsoft and others, such as Dropbox, Salesforce, and ServiceNow.

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Enable inter-directory provisioning

Provision users between on-premises and cloud directories, such as Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID.

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Manage access requests

Administer changes to user access. Define how users request resource access and anytime boundaries, and ensure access is removed when no longer needed.

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Build customized workflows to automate user access

Ensure that new employees and employees with new roles can be productive immediately; and access for former employees leaves when they do.

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Identity lifecycle management at scale

Automatically create user identities and roles in the apps users need to access and maintain and remove user identities as status or roles change.

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Leadership Compass for Access Management

KuppingerCole has rated Microsoft as an Overall Leader, Market Leader, and Innovation Leader in the 2023 Leadership Compass for Access Management. Microsoft is also listed as a Product Leader.

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Microsoft Entra ID Governance

Automatically ensure that the right people have the right access to the right apps and services at the right time.

Documentation and training

Lifecycle management documentation

See how lifecycle management works in Microsoft Entra ID Governance.

Apps that work with Microsoft Entra ID

Find all apps for which Microsoft Entra ID supports pre-integrated provisioning connectors and learn how to configure them.

Lifecycle and provisioning concepts

Get an overview of lifecycle and provisioning processes.

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