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Agent Owners Sponsors Managers

General

In Microsoft Agent ID, the agent's identity, blueprint, and blueprint principal may all have sponsors associated with them. In addition, agents can have an [agent's user account](agent-users.md) created in order to access user-oriented services. While the Ent…

Licensing Identity Protection

Security

Starting soon, ID Protection for agents will require a [Microsoft Agent 365 license](https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-agent-365#plans-and-pricing) to extend protection to agents through [Microsoft Entra Agent ID](../agent-id/what-is-microsoft-entra-agent-i…

Agent Id

General

In this flow, the agent can't reuse the user's original token because it was issued for a different audience. Instead, the agent uses the OBO flow to exchange tokens with Microsoft Entra ID, obtaining a new token scoped to the target resource. This token exch…

Agent Id Design Patterns

Architecture

Learn how to map your AI agent architecture to Microsoft Entra Agent ID, including blueprints, agent identities, and an agent's user account.

AI-guided setup for Microsoft Entra Agent ID

Provisioning

Describes how to use an AI coding agent to automate the onboarding process for Microsoft Entra Agent ID, including blueprint creation, credential configuration, and agent identity provisioning.

Best Practices Agent Id

Monitoring

Learn operational best practices for designing, securing, and governing AI agent identities with Microsoft Entra Agent ID, including blueprint design, credential management, access controls, and monitoring strategies.

Licensing Identity Protection

Security

Starting soon, ID Protection for agents will require a [Microsoft Agent 365 license](https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-agent-365#plans-and-pricing) to extend protection to agents through [Microsoft Entra Agent ID](../agent-id/what-is-microsoft-entra-agent-i…

Manage agent identities in your organization

Conditional Access

Learn how to manage agent identities across your organization. View, disable, govern, and monitor agents using the Microsoft Entra admin center and Conditional Access.

Manage agents in end user experience

General

Learn how to manage agent identities in the end user experience within Microsoft Entra. View, control, and take action on agents you own or sponsor with ease.

Microsoft Entra Agent ID logs

Authentication

Learn how audit and sign-in activities associated with agent identities are logged in Microsoft Entra ID.

Migrate Copilot Studio Agents To Agent Id

Governance

Learn how to recreate Microsoft Copilot Studio agents with Microsoft Entra Agent ID for enhanced governance and security. No in-place migration path exists today.

Plan Agent Identity Architecture

Architecture

Use this decision guide to choose the right identity type, operation pattern, and blueprint and agent identity structure for your AI agents in Microsoft Entra Agent ID.

Security For Ai Overview

Fundamentals

Learn how Microsoft Entra provides identity-based security controls for AI agents, applications, and services through authentication, governance, and Zero Trust policy enforcement.

Sidecar Local Development

Authentication

Run the Microsoft Entra SDK auth sidecar on your laptop with Docker Compose and Ollama to see autonomous and on-behalf-of agent authentication working end-to-end.

Validate Agent Tokens Downstream Api

Developer

Learn how to validate Microsoft Entra Agent ID tokens in a downstream API by checking the signature, issuer, audience, and agent identity marker claim.

What's new in Microsoft Entra Agent ID

Governance

Learn about new features and updates in Microsoft Entra Agent ID at general availability, including non-Microsoft integrations, migration guides, and enterprise governance.

Configure Third Party Agents

Developer

- [Configure Entra ID Auth SDK (sidecar) for agent identities](microsoft-entra-sdk-for-agent-identities.md)

Integrate N8n Agent

General

Deploy n8n on Azure Container Apps and secure AI agent workflows with Microsoft Entra Agent ID and Microsoft Graph MCP Server for Enterprise.

Key Concepts

Fundamentals

Traditional service principals were designed for static, deterministic workloads. Microsoft Entra Agent ID exists because service principals lack the governance infrastructure AI agents need. There's no enforced sponsorship, no agent-aware audit entries, and…

To guide users on how to call APIs using agent identities in .NET.

Authentication

To call an API from an agent, you need to obtain an access token that the agent can use to authenticate itself to the API. We recommend using the *Microsoft.Identity.Web* SDK for .NET to call your web APIs. This SDK simplifies the process of acquiring and val…

What Is Agent Id Platform

Standards

- **Authentication service**: An OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC) standard-compliant authentication service that enables secure, standards-based authentication for agents. This service issues tokens that agents use to authenticate to resources and APIs, su…

Whats New Agent Id

Provisioning

- [AI-guided setup](agent-id-ai-guided-setup.md) (New) - Automate onboarding with an AI coding agent that walks you through blueprint creation, credential configuration, and agent identity provisioning.

Whats New Ignite 2025

Fundamentals

- [Call API: Azure services](../agent-id/call-api-azure-services.md) (New)

Agent Access Packages

Governance

This article explains how access packages provide governance for agent identity access to resources.

Agent Id Creation Channels

Monitoring

Learn about the ways to create Microsoft Entra agent identity blueprints, agent identities, and agents' user accounts as well as monitor and control their introduction into your tenant.

AI-guided setup for Microsoft Entra Agent ID

Provisioning

Describes how to use an AI coding agent to automate the onboarding process for Microsoft Entra Agent ID, including blueprint creation, credential configuration, and agent identity provisioning.

Best practices for Microsoft Entra Agent ID

Monitoring

Learn operational best practices for designing, securing, and governing AI agent identities with Microsoft Entra Agent ID, including blueprint design, credential management, access controls, and monitoring strategies.

Configure Third Party Agents

Authentication

Learn how to integrate third-party AI agents with Microsoft Entra Agent ID for secure authentication using sidecar and federation patterns.

Create an agent identity blueprint

Microsoft identity platform

Learn how to create an agent identity blueprint that serves as a template for multiple agent identities using Microsoft Graph APIs and PowerShell.

Integrate N8n Agent

General

A Microsoft Entra documentation page was updated: Integrate N8n Agent.

Learn how agent identity deletion works

Fundamentals

Learn how deleting an agent identity blueprint triggers automatic cleanup of child agent identities in Microsoft Entra, and how to restore deleted objects.

Manage agent identities in your organization

Conditional Access

Learn how to manage agent identities across your organization. View, disable, govern, and monitor agents using the Microsoft Entra admin center and Conditional Access.

Manage agents in end user experience

General

Learn how to manage agent identities in the end user experience within Microsoft Entra. View, control, and take action on agents you own or sponsor with ease.

Microsoft Entra Agent ID design patterns

Architecture

Learn how to map your AI agent architecture to Microsoft Entra Agent ID, including blueprints, agent identities, and an agent's user account.

Microsoft Entra Agent ID logs

Authentication

Learn how audit and sign-in activities associated with agent identities are logged in Microsoft Entra ID.

Microsoft Entra Agent ID sign-in process

Authentication

Learn about the Microsoft Entra Agent ID sign-in process, including consent pages, trust criteria, and how to manage agent permissions for secure access to AI agents using work accounts.

Microsoft Entra security for AI overview

Fundamentals

Learn how Microsoft Entra provides identity-based security controls for AI agents, applications, and services through authentication, governance, and Zero Trust policy enforcement.

Overview of agent identities in Microsoft Entra

Fundamentals

Learn about agent identities in Microsoft Entra ID, specialized identity constructs that enable secure authentication and authorization for AI agents in enterprise environments.

Plan your agent identity architecture

Architecture

Use this decision guide to choose the right identity type, operation pattern, and blueprint and agent identity structure for your AI agents in Microsoft Entra Agent ID.

What are agent identities?

Authentication

Learn about agent identities, specialized identity constructs that enable secure authentication and authorization for AI agents in enterprise environments.

What's new in Microsoft Entra Agent ID

Governance

Learn about new features and updates in Microsoft Entra Agent ID at general availability, including non-Microsoft integrations, migration guides, and enterprise governance.

Agent Id

Fundamentals

- High-level overview of Conditional Access: [What is Conditional Access?](overview.md)

Target agent identities in Conditional Access policies

Conditional Access

Conditional Access policies for agent identities let you control how AI agents access corporate resources. As your organization deploys more agents, you need policies that target the right agents, evaluate the right signals, and enforce the right controls. To…

Licensing Governance

Governance

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userimpact: Low

General

Microsoft Entra Agent ID requires every [agent identity](/entra/agent-id/agent-identities) and [agent identity blueprint](/entra/agent-id/agent-blueprint) to have at least one sponsor. A sponsor is a human user, or supported group, that holds business account…

userimpact: Low

General

When an organization enables AI agents in Microsoft Entra, [agent identities](/entra/agent-id/agent-identities) can access tokens to access organizational resources without an interactive user session and device, location, or MFA signals that classic Conditio…

userimpact: Medium

General

Microsoft Entra Agent ID introduced two identity types: [agent identities](/entra/agent-id/agent-identities) and [agent identity blueprint principals](/entra/agent-id/agent-blueprint). These identity objects derive from service principals, and so carry the sa…

Validate Agent Tokens Downstream Api

Developer

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Agent Access Packages

Security

1. Select **Next: Resource roles**. On the **Resource roles** tab, you select the resource roles to include in the access package. Access packages for agent identities can have security group memberships, directory roles, or API permissions as resource roles.…

Agent Id

Conditional Access

Conditional Access is an intelligent policy engine that helps organizations control how users and agents access corporate resources. It brings together real-time signals such as user's and agent's context, device, location, and session risk information to det…

Configure Inheritable Permissions Blueprints

General

- Maximum of 50 resource apps per agent identity blueprint (for example, up to 50 entries in the *inheritablePermissions* collection). If you exceed this limit, reduce the number of resource apps to stay within the supported boundary.

Agent Owners Sponsors Managers

General

Owners usually serve as technical administrators for agents, handling operational and configuration aspects. Individual users (including guest users) and service principals can be set as owners. Groups aren't supported as owners. Service principals as owners…

Migrate Copilot Studio agents to Agent ID

Governance

Learn how to recreate Microsoft Copilot Studio agents with Microsoft Entra Agent ID for enhanced governance and security. No in-place migration path exists today.

Agent Id Ai Guided Setup

General

If you have the GitHub Copilot for Azure extension installed, ask Copilot to set up Agent ID. For example:

Security For Ai Overview

Fundamentals

- Ensure sponsors and owners are assigned and maintained for each agent identity, preventing orphaned agent identities.

Licensing Agent Id

Conditional Access

- **Conditional Access for agents**: Microsoft Entra ID P1 or Microsoft 365 E3.

Agent Lists

General

Access Microsoft Entra admin center to view and filter agent identities. Streamline tenant oversight with search, filters, and column customization.

Create an agent identity blueprint

Microsoft identity platform

Learn how to create an agent identity blueprint that serves as a template for multiple agent identities using Microsoft Graph APIs and PowerShell.

Integrate third-party agents with Microsoft Entra Agent ID

Authentication

Microsoft Entra Agent ID enables AI agents from third-party platforms to authenticate and access your APIs securely without handling credentials directly. This article covers two integration patterns - the Microsoft Entra Auth SDK (sidecar) and federation - f…

Manage Agent Identities Admin

General

The Microsoft Entra admin center provides a centralized interface to view all agent identities in your tenant. You can search, filter, sort, and customize columns to find specific agents.

Manage agents in end user experience

General

Learn how to manage agent identities in the end user experience within Microsoft Entra. View, control, and take action on agents you own or sponsor with ease.

Microsoft Entra Agent ID logs

Authentication

Learn how audit and sign-in activities associated with agent identities are logged in Microsoft Entra ID.

What's new in Microsoft Entra Agent ID

Governance

Learn about new features and updates in Microsoft Entra Agent ID at general availability, including third-party integrations, migration guides, and enterprise governance.

Whats New Agent Id

General

This article summarizes the key capabilities and documentation currently available.