Employee lifecycle doesn’t stop at onboarding and offboarding.
Employees get promoted, switch departments, relocate, and take on new responsibilities. When those changes aren’t reflected in Microsoft Entra ID quickly, identity-driven processes such as dynamic group membership, application assignments, and governance controls can drift out of sync.
Microsoft Entra Lifecycle Workflows now introduces a new Update user attributes task (Preview).
Workflows can now modify user attributes: department, job title, city, extension attributes, as part of the same joiner, mover, or leaver execution, without requiring separate scripts, custom automation, or manual administrative updates.
For example, when an employee moves from Sales to Marketing, a single workflow can update their profile attributes, such as department, job title, location, or extension attributes, while continuing with other lifecycle actions.
A few things to note before rolling it out:
- Up to 10 attributes can be updated per task instance
- Cloud-managed users only; on-prem synced users are not supported
- Custom security attributes are currently out of scope
Lifecycle Workflows is steadily evolving from a task automation engine into a more complete identity lifecycle management platform.