Support Hybrid IAM (Active Directory + Microsoft Entra ID)
With this update, hybrid IAM enables to use of the Active Directory (AD) and Microsoft Entra ID (Entra ID) Identity and Access Management concurrently or individually according to the need. This enables the customer to migrate from legacy on-prem Active Directory to cloud Microsoft Entra ID. Also, this further provides the benefits of leveraging the users/groups and their attributes in different capabilities functioning across the App Portal.
Following improvements are added to Hybrid IAM (Active Directory + Microsoft Entra ID):
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Unified view to manage multiple Identity and Access Management
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Ability to Leverage Active Directory / Microsoft Entra ID Attributes
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Ability to Add Targets via Security Groups into Active Directory / Microsoft Entra ID
As part of Microsoft Entra ID integration, following below features are not supported today.
Approval Groups
ITAM/FNMS integration (License Reclamation)
My Apps
Retire campaign
Upgrade campaign
Smart Uninstall
Scheduling/Leasing
Service Now integration
Operating System Deployment
Clone/Migrate
Support Tools
Notifications
Cloud Apps
Reclamation Dashboard
Questions
With this release the existing customers can continue to use the Active Directory as identity and access management (IAM) in the upgraded version of App Portal 2025 R1 with resolved issues and with an ability to utilize the Microsoft Entra ID integration with limited features as follows:
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Data sync
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Admin security
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Catalog security
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Deployment via Intune and ConfigMgr
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Security Groups
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Visibility conditions
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Category Security
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Approval Conditions
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Software CI with license enabled (lic availability and lic reservation)
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Request On Behalf options