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Sync Azure AD users and groups to Tailscale

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Andrew Dunham and Jeff Spencer
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747
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Syncing Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) users and groups to Tailscale streamlines the processes of onboarding and offboarding employees by automating user and group provisioning, which helps mitigate risks associated with former employees retaining access to company resources. This integration, currently in beta, allows organizations to synchronize deleted users and group memberships from Azure AD to Tailscale, ensuring that personnel changes are accurately reflected across systems. Tailscale leverages the existing identity provider (IdP) for authentication and access rules for authorization, eliminating the need for manual updates when roles change. By utilizing the SCIM protocol, Tailscale dynamically recognizes changes in group names and memberships, allowing administrators to efficiently manage access through a centralized identity provider. This feature is particularly beneficial for large organizations with frequent organizational changes, as it simplifies user management and access control across applications. Enabling this integration requires configuring SCIM on both Tailscale and Azure AD, linking accounts, and setting up the necessary provisioning details, with the feature being available within Tailscale Enterprise.