Sign In Error 90072 with On Prem Accounts - How to mitigate?
We receive weekly reports from one of our security vendors regarding login failures across our environment. As of recent, we've noticed a spike in interactive login failures, particularly with Microsoft services. The application that produces many of these logs is Microsoft Office. Upon investigation, we've determined that many of these sign ins procure error code 90072 with the following error message: "User account '{user}' from identity provider '{idp}' does not exist in tenant '{tenant}' and cannot access the application '{application}'({appName}) in that tenant. The account needs to be added as an external user in the tenant first. Sign out and sign in again with a different Azure Active Directory user account" As a disclaimer, I did not edit this message to insert the unfilled variables in brackets - that's how the error message appears in our Entra portal. We currently run a hybrid environment, and all of the users with high volumes of failed sign ins with the given error code and message are on-prem accounts. These logs produce a lot of noise that we would rather not have polluting our reports. Do you have any information we can use to help remediate this issue?Shape the future of our communities! Take this survey to share your practitioner insights. 💡 ✏️ 🔓
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Cloud-First Attribute Ownership for Synced Users in Entra ID Is Not Supported
📝 Description As an enterprise architect working to modernize identity provisioning, I’ve encountered a major limitation in Microsoft Entra ID’s hybrid identity model. While Microsoft promotes a cloud-first strategy, the current architecture forces reliance on on-premises Active Directory for attribute ownership when users are synced via Entra Connect. Key issues: Directory extension attributes, even when created in the cloud, are read-only for synced users. Custom security attributes are not queryable and cannot be used in dynamic groups or claims. There is no supported mechanism to allow cloud apps (e.g., Workday provisioning) to own or update specific attributes for synced users. Breaking sync to convert users to cloud-only is disruptive and not scalable for large enterprises. This creates a conflict between cloud-first provisioning goals and technical limitations, making it difficult to fully transition away from on-prem AD. ✅ Requested Improvements Attribute-Level Ownership Delegation Allow cloud apps to own and update specific attributes for synced users, even if the user is still managed by AD. Writable Directory Extensions for Synced Users Enable Graph API write access to cloud-created directory extensions for hybrid users. Dynamic Query Support for Custom Security Attributes Make custom security attributes usable in dynamic groups, claims, and app filtering. Clear Guidance and Tooling for Cloud-First Identity Models Provide supported patterns and tools for transitioning identity provisioning and attribute management to the cloud. 🙏 Why This Matters Organizations are actively trying to reduce reliance on legacy infrastructure and embrace cloud-first identity. The current limitations in Entra ID make this transition unnecessarily complex and inconsistent with Microsoft’s cloud-first messaging. ---copiloted response for sure after many days of trying to work a solution that does not create more tech debt...Entra App Gallery required for Excel AddIn
Hi, We have an Excel Addin published to Microsoft AppSource: https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA200009029?tab=Overview The Excel Addin uses Entra ID to obtain an OIDC token to securely / seamlessly access MS 365 SharePoint on behalf of the user. In order to achive this the Entra ID subscription needs the TR4E application registered as an Enterprise Application / App Registration. My question is whether I need to submit the TR4E application separately to the Entra App Gallery, so it can be installed by the Entra ID admin - or will the registration in Entra ID happen automatically when a new user first tries using TR4E? I note that MS has suspended new application submissions for Entra App Gallery, which means our customers would need to manually create the Entra ID Enterprise Application (which is not a great experience). Cheers, Andrew
User Identities in EntraID - how to remove?
I have a user that shows up with multiple identities. No other users are like this and we believe its stopping him from logging in with his alias email address. When i run get-entrauser it returns the following under Identities: {@{signInType=federated; issuer=MicrosoftAccount; issuerAssignedId=}, @{signInType=federated; issuer=MicrosoftAccount; issuerAssignedId=}, @{signInType=userPrincipalName; issuer=OURPRIMARYDOMAIN.onmicrosoft.com; issuerAssignedId=UPN}} Every other account just has this @{signInType=userPrincipalName; issuer=OURPRIMARYDOMAIN.onmicrosoft.com; issuerAssignedId=UPN}} How would i go about removing those identies from that user? Struggling to find any info online.Kid finds a way into my account using an old PIN
I have set up parental controls. Somehow my sone managed to find the password logged in the Microsoft Familly app and changed the settings at will. I have changed my password in the meantime but he found an easy way around it as he selects use other methods to sign in and then selects PIN, inputs my old PIN and he is back in. How is this possible? I have changed the password, I have changed the PIN, turned on 2FA and reset Windows Hello and he just goes around all this in one go by introducing my old PIN. Is there a fix for this ?
Entra ID Connect Sync - Issue Updating the SQL 2019 Local DB
Hello, Does anyone know how to patch/update the SQL Server 2019 LocalDB utilised by Microsoft AD Connect / Entra Connect? We have identified vulnerabilities on the version of SQL 2019 LocalDB used by Microsoft Entra Connect. The trace file in C:\ProgramData\AADConnect shows the following version: Package=Microsoft SQL Server 2019 LocalDB , version=15.0.4138.2 (CU11) We are attempting to update this local database to version 15.0.4415.2 (CU30), using the following package: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=100809 However, when we run the package it cannot identify the SQL Server 2019 LocalDB server instance. There is a message stating: "The version of SQL Server instance Shared Component does not match the version expected by the SQL Server update. The installed SQL Server product version is 11.4.7001.0, and the expected SQL Server version is 15.0.2000.5" The version it references is SQL Server 2012, however the logs show the database as SQL 2019 and the database instance name within the Entra Connect / AD Connect agent includes 2019. I have attempted leaving the service running, manually starting the database instance, running as admin, and running the package via command prompt targeting the instance. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks.
SCIM and mapping to a 3rd party app
hello, got a SCIM question: we have a 3rd party application we are hooking up to SCIM (call it AppXYZ). The group we want to put people into in AppXYZ is called 'Group1'. On the MS Entra side, the MS Entra group is called "Testing Users". When I setup SCIM, how do I map the MS Entra group "Testing Users" to the group inside of AppXYZ called Group1. Note: I cannot change the name of the group in AppXYZ - it must be called Group1, no exceptions and the MS Entra user group must be called "Testing Users" cannot alter the name. thanks everyone.General Question About Federation
Hello, We have a federated domain and to my knowledge this means that all authentication for this domain will be send to ADFS and will not be directly handled in Azure Entra ID. Is the following statement correct: When I register an APP in Entra ID the authentication will still be handed off to ADFS. (when my user types in mailto:email address removed for privacy reasons. I will first go to microsoft that will then hand it off to ADFS. Will there by any additional config required on the ADFS server for the registered application? If i would like to bypass this federated authentication the only way to do this is change it to a managed domain removing the federation or do a staged rollout as described below https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/hybrid/connect/how-to-connect-staged-rolloutCan we use On-Behalf-Of-User flow and Client Credential Flow for same API
I have developed few API and its using on behalf of user flow. We get the delegated access for respective users to perform action. But we have several background jobs so can i switch to client credential flow for just these background jobs? By doing this the same API has both "on behalf of user flow" and "Client Credential flow"!
