Saturday, 3 October 2026

Provisioning expression reference adds German diacritic normalization function

Microsoft updated the Entra application provisioning expression reference with `NormalizeDiacriticsByCulture(source, culture)`. For German (`de`), the documented transliteration converts `ä` to `ae` and `ß` to `ss`.

• Entra ID · Provisioning

  German-aware normalization added to provisioning expression guidance

  The reference now documents `NormalizeDiacriticsByCulture(source, culture)`, including German (`de`) transliteration examples such as `ä` to `ae` and `ß` to `ss`.

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