Microsoft Entra ID
ProvisioningInbound Provisioning Api Faqs
In brief
The FAQ changes “Scoping filter” to “scoping filter” and clarifies that administrators define scoping filter rules to include or exclude users from processing. The existing Sales example remains.
What Entra admins need to know
No product or configuration change is indicated; administrators may simply use the updated terminology when consulting the FAQ.
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You may have a scenario where you want to send all users to the API endpoint, but only include certain users in the provisioning flow and exclude the rest.
You can achieve this using thea Scopingscoping filter. In the provisioning app configuration, you can define a source object scope andscoping filter rules to exclude certain users from processing either using an "inclusion rule" (for example, only process users where department EQUALS Sales) or an "exclusion rule" (for example, exclude users belonging to Sales, department NOT EQUALS Sales).
See Scoping users or groups to be provisioned with scoping filters.
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Refer to the tutorial [Extend API-driven provisioning to sync custom attributes] You may have a scenario where you want to send all users to the API endpoint, but only include certain users in the provisioning flow and exclude the rest. -You can achieve this using the **Scoping filter**. In the provisioning app configuration, you can define a source object scope and exclude certain users from processing either using an "inclusion rule" (for example, only process users where department EQUALS **Sales**) or an "exclusion rule" (for example, exclude users belonging to Sales, department NOT EQUALS **Sales**).+You can achieve this using a **scoping filter**. In the provisioning app configuration, you can define scoping filter rules to exclude certain users from processing either using an "inclusion rule" (for example, only process users where department EQUALS **Sales**) or an "exclusion rule" (for example, exclude users belonging to Sales, department NOT EQUALS **Sales**). See [Scoping users or groups to be provisioned with scoping filters](define-conditional-rules-for-provisioning-user-accounts.md).