Tag: Privileged Identity Management

A recent report highlighted the problem of on-premises accounts synchronized to Entra ID that receive administrative role assignments. This article explains how to report the administrative role assignments managed by Privileged Identity Management (PIM) or direct role membership so that it’s easy to highlight on-premises accounts holding administrative roles.

PIM, or Privileged Identity Management, is a solution for managing the assignment of privileged Entra ID roles to users and groups. PIM role assignments can be active or eligible. If you report “normal” role assignments, you only see the currently active set. Some more processing is needed to fetch the PIM assignments. Here’s our version of a script to do the job for holders of the Exchange administrator and Global administrator roles.