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Are Your Microsoft Entra Extensions Actually Being Used?
Today I'll take a deeper dive into what Entra Extensions Manager can help with and be used for. As I went over in my last two blog posts, custom extensions have a habit of sticking around. An application gets built, an extension gets created, values get written to users or other directory objects and, a few years later, nobody is really sure whether any of it is still being used. The application might be gone, the extension might even be deprecated, but what about the data? E

Sebastian F. Markdanner
Sep 148 min read


Introducing Entra Extensions Manager: A Better Way to Manage Custom Extensions
Ever felt like you needed some more options to store data in Entra, or the pain of having to figure out what, when and where data is stored? me too... In my last blog post, I went over the different custom extensions in Microsoft Entra, their strengths and weaknesses, where they fit in, and my thoughts and recommendations on when to use each. On top of that, I promised to show a project to help manage them, as working with custom extensions can be a pain, especially in larger

Sebastian F. Markdanner
Aug 3111 min read


Choosing the Right Extension Type in Microsoft Entra
I’ve been seeing a lot of discussions about the different extension types available across Microsoft Entra objects, and I have a few thoughts on the subject that I want to share with y’all. Being able to extend the built-in attributes and data model in Microsoft Entra provides a flexible way to handle information across our organizations for monitoring, automation, and governance. With that said, I don’t believe the 15 predefined extension attributes are the best route to tak

Sebastian F. Markdanner
Jun 158 min read
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