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A hybrid worker for Active Directory

Tags of AD-synced users are written in Active Directory by a small worker that only connects out and has no password.

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The Overview page with summary cards, a table of the last run of each job and the hybrid worker with its version and last seen time
The overview: the last run of each job and the hybrid worker's heartbeat

Purpose

For a synced user Active Directory is the source of truth: a tag written only in Entra ID is overwritten by the next sync. The tag has to be written in AD, by something that may write there and nothing more.

Design

The worker is a scheduled task on a domain-joined Windows Server (an Azure VM or an Azure Arc-enabled server). It connects out to the Entra Policy Suite database with the server's managed identity, takes the AD changes the tagging job recorded, writes them as a group managed service account delegated to the tag attributes in the OUs you name, and reports a heartbeat. It refuses an attribute the AD schema does not have, and says so in the result. It can run on its own server or share the server of a PIM Manager hybrid worker, with its own identities.

Business opportunities

Hybrid tenants get the same tagging as cloud-only tenants, without an inbound connection, a stored password or a PowerShell module.

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