Entra Lifecycle Workflows Vs MIM: The Limits That Decide A Migration
Every Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) retirement plan reaches the same slide: the joiner, mover, and leaver workflows move to Entra ID Governance lifecycle workflows. For a lot of estates that slide is right. For others it hides the hardest part of the project. Azure IAM, LLC, an independent identity consulting firm that migrates MIM estates, keeps a running list of where the two products diverge, drawn from Microsoft's own documentation and from assessments at clients like Contoso. The firm's migration method is documented at https://azureiam.com/mim-to-sailpoint What a lifecycle workflow is A lifecycle workflow is a job in Entra ID Governance that runs a sequence of built-in tasks against users who meet an execution condition. The condition is a trigger plus a scope. Triggers are time based (a number of days before or after employeeHireDate, employeeLeaveDateTime, or createdDateTime), attribute change based, group membership based, or on demand. Scope is a rule over user att...