The modern enterprise identity landscape balances fluidity with permanence, yet “boomerang” hiring strains the systems built to manage it. HR-driven provisioning, designed to automate the worker lifecycle, often falters during rehire events. When a former employee returns, workflows must reconcile an existing digital footprint or create a new one. Failed correlation results in the “duplicate…
Rescinded Hire Architecture
February 20, 2026
The modern enterprise identity landscape relies on a delicate synchronization between Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) and technical directories. While the industry standard is the “Joiner, Mover, Leaver” (JML) framework, an increasingly dangerous edge case is emerging: the Rescinded Hire.
This situation arises when a future start date is entered into an HR system such as…
Integrating Entra with third-party apps
February 20, 2026
At 9:07 AM, your helpdesk phone lights up.
“Users can’t log into the CRM anymore. It says something about SAML.”
The CRM vendor insists nothing changed. Your network team swears the firewall is fine. Meanwhile, executives can’t access customer data.
In most modern Windows environments, this failure sits at the intersection of Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), third-party SaaS apps…
Picture a familiar Windows/AD problem, just wearing 2026 clothes.
You hire a contractor in a different country. They need access to a handful of internal apps, maybe a helpdesk portal, maybe a privileged request workflow. You don’t want to create a full AD account yet. You don’t want a permanent Entra B2B guest either. HR wants “proof of employment” and “proof of training completion.”…
Creating Automation Workflows Using Entra ID
February 20, 2026
Automation is the difference between an identity platform that scales and one that collapses under its own operational weight.
In most environments, identity changes outpace everything else. Users join, move, leave. Devices enroll and retire. Applications appear, proliferate, and demand access. Compliance rules evolve. If each of these events requires a ticket and a human click path through the…
