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Provisioning with SCIM – getting started

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Pamela Dingle
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Oct 03, 2019
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 Manag...
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ghislaincote
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Oct 08, 2019

Thanks for the article Pamela Dingle ! I am new to this topic. My first reaction was to compare SCIM with dynamic user provisioning based on authentication and roles (ie: a user created in a SaaS provider after a successful OAuth2/OIDC login). I guess SCIM applies more when we NEED to create/maintain/destroy the whole or a sub-group of our users to ANOTHER system ? Is that common nowadays ? Or are most organisation able to wait for the person to login once in system they need ?

(Just asking for a friend)