However, anyone who’s tried to manage users in more than one app will tell you that every app tries to perform the same simple actions, such as creating or updating users, adding users to groups, or deprovisioning users. To help automate provisioning and deprovisioning, apps expose proprietary user and group APIs.

Solutions such as SAML just-in-time (JIT) have been adopted to automate provisioning, but enterprises also need a solution to deprovision users when they leave the organization or no longer require access to certain apps based on role change. To many admins, provisioning means manually creating every user account or uploading CSV files each week, but these processes are time consuming, expensive, and error prone. Standards such as Security Assertions Markup Language (SAML) or Open ID Connect (OIDC) allow admins to quickly set up single sign-on (SSO), but access also requires users to be provisioned into the app. If you want to learn more about how SCIM works and why it is important, look no farther!Īs the number of applications used in modern organizations continues to grow, IT admins are tasked with access management at scale.

Hi standards fans! We are super lucky today to hear from (talk to?) one of the folks who is actively making a difference in Microsoft’s expanded support for the System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) 2.0 specification, Arvind Harinder.

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