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SCIM defects
The Azure AD SCIM client does not follow the SCIM Base URI properly.
As per, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7644#section-1.3,
The resource relative paths (e.g. /Users) needs to be appended to the configured Base URI.
Azure AD is instead appending "/scim/Users" to the URI configured on the Provisioning tab of the app. If my SaaS application requires the tenant ID in the path (e.g. https://bla/scim/tenantID/), this is not possible with Azure's client.The Azure AD SCIM client doesn't implement a proper OAuth2 client. It simply asks for the OAuth bearer token to be provided in the configuration. This is no good since…
32 votesThe first issue is fixed as described here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/manage-apps/application-provisioning-config-problem-scim-compatibility
OAuth authorization code grant flow is now supported for new apps that want to be added to the Azure AD app gallery. You can request your app be added here – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/howto-app-gallery-listing
Work is underway to make the authorization code grant flow available for custom apps.
Link to understand the code grant flow – https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#page-24
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serviceNow
I think there is significant area for improvement of the Auto Provisioning functionality when dealing with referenced fields.
For example, the user table within ServiceNow looks similar to the sample snippet below:
TABLE - User [sys_user]
FIELD - Username [username] - string
FIELD - Name [name] - string
FIELD - Email [email] - string
FIELD - Department [department] - references Department [cmndepartment] table
FIELD - Location [location] - references Location [cmn_location] table
FIELD - etc. etc.Provisioning from Azure - in the cloud - is an awesome alternative to the previous configuration of having ServiceNow communicate with on-prem…
15 votesThanks for the feedback. We are looking into revamping our ServiceNow connector. Will update this thread as we make progress.
/Arvind
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Integrate site mapping for Samanage App
I am provisioning users from AAD to Samanage and I am trying to map the AD attribute "physicalDeliveryOfficeName" to the Samanage "site" attribute. This mapping is currently not supported and I would find it useful.
13 votesThanks for the feedback, we will review.
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Azure AD - SaaS - SCIM provisioning of AD attribute thumbnailPhoto
Azure AD SCIM Provisioning should allow for the provisioning/mapping of the AD attribute thumbnailPhoto to SaaS applications. This value is already present within Azure.
11 votesWhat format would you like the pictures to be provisioned in (jpeg, PNG, GIF, etc.)?
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Allow for additional user profile attributes to be updated to applications beyond user name, manager, active status and language.
Currently only able to update the following from Azure AD to Cornerstone On Demand App:
cornerStoneUser.Contact.Name.Last
cornerStoneUser.Contact.Name.First
cornerStoneUser.Active
cornerStoneUser.Organization.Manager
cornerStoneUser.Language
We would greatly benefit from being able to update the Department/Division attribute as well, as we have a moderate amount of movement between Departments within our organization.
7 votesHi we are looking at how best to address this.
/Arvind
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User provisioning: optimized
User/Group provisioning: optimize SCIM requests
Please optimize SCIM requests. We found that Azure (unlike other SCIM clients) makes requests as "small" as possible, thus making multiple requests in a short span of time. This is sub-optimal and uses up a lot of "bandwidth/resource" on our side.
For example:
1. provisioning a group with 5000 memberships. instead of creating a new group with 5000 members or making a single patch with 5000 members to add to, Azure AD SCIM makes 5000 individual PATCH requests.
2. provisioning a user. instead of making a single POST call with all the attributes as stated…7 votesThanks for the feedback. We will review. Does your application support the /Bulk endpoint as well?
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Make Azure Groups PATCH remove operation SCIM v2 compliant
The request body for Update Group [Remove Members] is not compliant with the SCIM v2 specification.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/manage-apps/use-scim-to-provision-users-and-groups#update-group-remove-membersAzure is specifying the member value they want deleted in the "value" property. SCIM specification states that the member value that would be removed in the PATCH operation needs to be set in the "path" property, not "value". The "value" property should actually never be sent in a PATCH remove operation per specification.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7644#section-3.5.2.2If a Service Provider that implemented SCIM per specification were to receive PATCH remove request from Azure as is documented above, that request would result in ALL users being…
6 votesThank you for the feedback, we will review.
/Arvind
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Allow Attribute Mapping to be Re-enabled without a Reset After Being Disabled for SCIM and ServiceNow, etc. User Provisioning Syncs
To reproduce this, set up a ServiceNow sync with an Enterprise Application by putting in admin credentials and disabled the Group attribute mapping and save. There is no way to re-enable this via the UI without resetting your attribute mappings to default, which causes you to lose your customization work to the user attribute mapping.
(I'm assuming this applies to other SCIM provisioning UI's as well beyond just the ServiceNow one.)
It should be easier to re-enable a group or user object type attribute mapping without losing your customization for the other when it's disabled.
4 votesThis is a bug on our side and we will fix it. As a workaround you can use the Microsoft graph to enable the object again. You will need to update schema and set enabled = true and sourceName = “user” or “Group” based on which option you’re trying to bring back. Apologies for having to use the workaround. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/synchronization-synchronizationschema-update?view=graph-rest-beta&tabs=http
/Arvind
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Azure AD User provisioning service : Adding a Staging/Preview mode
Please add a Staging/Preview mode for the Azure AD User Provisioning Service.
It should be possible in an initial setup to test a new provisioning interface and receive a report on what will be changed in an end application. This gives the possibility and security that a new interface can be set up productively.
There is currently a risk that unwanted changes will be made.
As a suggestion; extension of the Scope field by
- Sync all users and groups (Preview only)
- Sync only assigned users and groups (Preview only)4 votesThis is something we are starting to design this quarter
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Make provision sync on demand
Make provision sync on demand for testing purpose.
User and group sync normally takes about 5~30 minutes. It is very inconvenient and inefficient for testing. Azure AD should allow on demand sync when it is testing phase and the total users are less than a numbers, for example 50.
4 votesThe first version of this will be available soon. Please let us know if you would like to try it out.
/Arvind
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Enterprise App provisioning needs more detailed Quarantine errors
I have a customer who sees a couple of their Enterprise applications are Quarantined due to high number of errors. For some reason they don't see the errors in the audit logs. When I researched the errors on the backend I found they had the following error code: DiceCredentialValidationFailure. Here is the most recent error message: Credentials passed are invalid for applicationId=
Once armed with that knowledge, I was able to work with the customer to create a new Admin credential for the application.
We would like to see that level of error reporting in the customer viewable audit logs…
3 votesWe plan to make the quarantine message more verbose. Thank you for the feedback.
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Push Profile Photo and Manager via scim
It appears that user's profile photo and manager are currently not pushed by Azure AD when it does a SCIM sync. Add support for pushing those attributes.
3 votesHi we are currently designing this feature. What format does your application support for photos (Jpeg, PNG, GIF)?
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Application Provisioning Attribute Mapping Configuration Backup for last 5 changes
During recent incident I came to know the Provisioning Configuration changes details does not get backed up. i.e. attribute changes which we make on attribute mapping. Only a text message get recorded the when changes are performed. It never record what changes were made. If Microsoft provide anyone functionality it will be helpful for all Azure customer.
Option 1) Provide backup for provisioning application schema for the last 5 configuration changes which can be access by Admin. It will help Admin to restore from the backup if incase of any failure while updating the Schema
Option 2) Currently Microsoft records…
2 votesThanks for the feedback. We are looking to add more detail to our audit logs. This is good feedback.
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Remove possibility for mapping to readonly ID attribute
According to RFC 7643 section 3.1 “The value of the "id" attribute is always issued by the service provider and MUST NOT be specified by the client.” But in fact azure portal allows mapping to “id” attribute which is violation of RFC.
RFC https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7644#section-3.12 specifies that service provider should respond with “Bad Request” to these invalid requests. There is even example of such response in the end of section 3.12.1 voteThanks for the feedback. Will review with the team.
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Need to be able dismiss errors from UI
I have a customer that is getting some errors which are not actionable showing up in their Reporting and in the main page for Provisioning. These errors do not impact the sync and they would like a way to mark them as handled or ignore so they can quit showing up in the UI and the reporting. This is similar to the request in https://feedback.azure.com/forums/169401-azure-active-directory/suggestions/36173572-clean-up-old-sync-errors.
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Allow Scope Filtering Based On Group Type
It would be very useful to allow for scope filtering of groups by Group Type. Currently, there's no easy way to filter out groups based on whether they're Office, Distribution, Security, etc.
1 voteCould you please describe the scenario where the specific distribution type is needed as a scoping filter?
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Azure AD User provisioning service : Support Contains Function in Attribut Flow Expression
Adding a new Expression for https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/manage-apps/functions-for-customizing-application-data called Contains(source[Multivalue], ValueRule).
This allowes multiple AppRoleAssignments and to set the correct Roles in the SaaS application.
As a reference SAP Concur with Roles like:
- Travel user
- Expense userinstead of
- Travel user
- Expense user
- Travel and Expense user1 voteThanks for the feedback, we will review
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Azure AD User provisioning service : Allow accessing diagnostic logs
It should be possible to get diagnostic logs, like API calls from the Azure Portal in case of an exception, so that a troubleshooting is possible without contacting the MS support.
1 voteCould you please clarify what types of API calls / what scenarios you’ve needed this information?
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Azure connector sync issues
We are trying to auto provision Salesforce users using Azure AD connector. We want certain attributes like ManagerId and Department to be in sync with AD always. So we had set that to "Always" in the set up. But our observation says that, when these values are changed in AD, it is updating to the new values in Salesforce. But if these values are changed in Salesforce, they are not getting overwritten with the values from AD in Salesforce. Which means, now they are out of sync.
Since we have set that to "Always", we expect these attributes to be…1 voteThanks for the input. The way the service works today we leverage the delta query API provided by AD graph to constantly check for changes and apply them to the target application. We are aware of changes in Azure AD and have a way of reflecting them in the target application. We don’t have a way today of getting changes directly from Salesforce but are looking at how we can make this possible.
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