New Microsoft Entra admin roles for Teams and Entra External ID

Microsoft has published two new Entra admin roles:

  • Teams External Collaboration Administrator
  • Authentication Extensibility Password Administrator


Teams External Collaboration Administrator

Microsoft announced the Teams External Collaboration Administrator role in early January.
Users with the Teams External Collaboration Administrator role can manage external access settings for federated domains and control External Access Policies to allow or block external domains.
This role does not grant access to the Teams admin center portal. All management tasks must be performed via PowerShell. Currently, assignment to Administrative Units is not supported for this role.

This role is designed for someone who governs external (federated) collaboration in Microsoft Teams, can adjust external access policies, and can open support cases, but only has read-only visibility into broader tenant and policy settings (via PowerShell only).

New admin role: Teams External Collaboration Administrator
New admin role: Teams External Collaboration Administrator

Role Definition ID: 2fe872fb-daa8-4afc-8f6c-53c4565cfef4
Role permissions:
microsoft.azure.supportTickets/allEntities/allTasks
microsoft.directory/authorizationPolicy/standard/read
microsoft.office365.webPortal/allEntities/standard/read
microsoft.teams/policies/externalAccessPolicy/allTasks


Authentication Extensibility Password Administrator

Authentication Extensibility Password Administrator relates to implementing Just-In-Time (JIT) password migration, which moves user credentials from a legacy identity provider to Microsoft Entra External ID, currently in Public Preview.

JIT migration works by invoking a custom API during the sign-in process to validate user credentials against the legacy identity provider. Microsoft Entra External ID supports this process by using custom authentication extensions to facilitate the integration. These extensions allow you to define custom logic that runs during the authentication process, enabling you to interact with external systems and perform more processing as part of the sign-in flow. … The Authentication Extensibility Password Administrator role gives you the necessary permissions to create and manage custom authentication extensions for password migration.

Role Definition ID: 0b00bede-4072-4d22-b441-e7df02a1ef63

New admin role: Authentication Extensibility Password Administrator
New admin role: Authentication Extensibility Password Administrator
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Tobias Asböck

Tobias is a Senior System Engineer with more than 10 years of professional experience with Microsoft 365 products such as SharePoint Online, SharePoint Premium, OneDrive for Business, Teams Collaboration, Entra ID, Information Protection, Universal Print, and Microsoft 365 Licensing. He also has 15+ years of experience planning, administering, and operating SharePoint Server environments. Tobias is a PowerShell Scripter with certifications for Microsoft 365 products. In his spare time, Tobias is busy with updates in the Microsoft 365 world or on the road with his road bike and other sports activities. If you have additional questions, please contact me via LinkedIn or [email protected].

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