guest-lifecycle

To audit and deprovision Entra B2B guest accounts, you can enumerate active guests, check sign-in recency, and execute guarded write operations to remove group access, revoke sessions, and block sign-in. This enforces policy guardrails for safe contractor offboarding.

Managing the Entra B2B guest lifecycle involves coordinating invitation, scoped access assignment, and deprovisioning. You confirm guest details, business justification, and expiry, then enforce policy guardrails like approval workflows and default expiration to prevent unmanaged access.

To flag stale contractor access during quarterly reviews, enumerate active Entra B2B guests and check sign-in recency alongside expiry settings. This highlights policy-violating access patterns, generating a report of flagged guests and recommended deprovisioning actions.

Yes, you can enforce identity governance policies by setting default expiry dates for temporary vendor access. This ensures Entra B2B guest accounts do not become unmanaged, applying policy guardrails that require security approvals and automatically expiring temporary access.

Yes, guest deprovisioning requires explicit confirmation before blocking sign-in or deleting accounts. The process uses guarded write operations to safely remove group and Team access, revoke active sessions, and ensure secure contractor offboarding without accidental data loss.

You need identity connectors for Entra B2B guest lifecycle management to perform necessary read and write operations. These connectors integrate with your environment to support invitation workflows, active guest audits, and safe deprovisioning outputs for both connected and read-only configurations.