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Privileged Identity Management

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Entra · Official Microsoft guidanceObserved changes retained

Observed content change

8 removed passages (about 50 words). The changed wording mentions prerequisites. Review the source to confirm the effect.

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Requirement wording
RemovedWhat is Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management?
[removed: Note]
RemovedWhat is Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management?
[removed: Access to this page requires authorization. You can try signing in or changing directories.]
RemovedWhat is Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management?
[removed: Access to this page requires authorization. You can try changing directories.]
RemovedFeedback
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[removed: Want to try using Ask Learn to clarify or guide you through this topic?]

Microsoft's wording from Microsoft source, © Microsoft Corporation, under MIT. ChangeIntel marks removed and added words, drops formatting and shortens long unchanged stretches.

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Sections to inspect

Up to 12 section headings from retained before/after evidence. The current source may have changed again.

Why this was flagged

The changed words, with a few words around them, matched these rule categories: prerequisites. These matches identify subjects to assess; they do not establish a policy change or applicability.

Observation details · observed 12 Oct 19:19 UTC
Observed by ChangeIntel
12 Oct 19:19 UTC
Source update metadata
24 Apr 05:08 UTC
First observed on this installation
5 Oct 17:20 UTC
Last successful check
today 07:19 UTC
Next check due
today 13:19 UTC

Observation time is not publication time, and a comparison does not establish an effective date. Full source bodies are not published; this page holds generated summaries, section headings and, as the page's license allows, Microsoft's changed wording. A documentation edit does not confirm feature availability in an environment.

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Timeline

From the capture of 12 Oct 19:19 UTC

Requirements, exceptions and scope

  • License requirementsRequirement1 condition1 passage
    Using Privileged Identity Management requires licenses. For more information on licensing, see Microsoft Entra ID Governance licensing fundamentals .…
  • Who can do what?Exception2 conditions2 passages
    For Microsoft Entra roles in Privileged…
  • TerminologyRequirementExceptionRecommendation7 conditions6 passages
  • ActivateRequirementException3 conditions2 passages
  • Eligible role user permissionsRequirement1 condition1 passage

Extracted automatically from Microsoft's wording. Confirm dates, conditions and whether they apply to you in the source before acting; a month or quarter is a window, not a day.

How this timeline changed

Changes between ChangeIntel's readings of the page, between commits of its source file where Microsoft publishes it, in Internet Archive copies of pages that keep no other history, and entries from Microsoft's own change log (dated as Microsoft dates them). Edits between readings that neither records are unknown.

  3. Conditions changed eligiblein TerminologyMicrosoft's source, commit 91b5373
Observed history and review priority

Captured 12 Oct 19:19 UTC; extracted 16 Oct 16:10 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/fc65ebeb286710c0a830833db8a7e5de7e266b79981fe9c7c34479be9369ad3c.

Review priority. Previously extracted guidance is missing from a later capture · Extracted assertions require review · Applicability or exceptions require review

0 date changes and 0 condition changes across 1 compared revisions. Suggested check interval: 6 hours.

Earlier unavailable versions and edits between checks are unknown. A missing statement requires review; it does not mean the policy was cancelled. Recovered historical statements are not original revision snapshots.

Retained observations · 13

Compact evidence remains available after full document bodies expire. Earlier extractions can have different vocabulary or capture limitations.

Microsoft's edits

History on GitHub

Commits to the page's source in MicrosoftDocs/entra-docs, with Microsoft's own messages. Commit dates can be hours or days before Learn publishes the change. ChangeIntel keeps a copy of each diff, so an edit stays readable here if GitHub stops serving it. Read 19 Oct 23:24 UTC.

  1. Update ms.date to 04/23/2026 in pim-configure.md Metadata onlyServed on LearnView diff
  2. Add customer intent to pim-troubleshoot.md View diff
  3. Add customer intent to pim-configure.md View diff
  4. Add customer intent to azure-pim-resource-rbac.md View diff
  5. AI readiness: Add Overview headings to Privileged Identity Management articles (batch 2) View diff
  6. Editorial pass: PIM settings and config articles (55 fixes) View diff
  7. freshness review View diff
  8. [ID Governance] Role casing correction View diff
  9. Howto branch fix merge issues View diff
  10. updating image references to new syntax and adopting accessability guidance View diff
  11. Merge branch 'release-structured-how-to' of https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/entra-docs-pr into convert-pim-how-to-activate-role View diff
9 metadata-only edits · author, dates or topic labels, no article text
  1. Content freshness review: PIM content set (34 articles verified, 3 fixes) Metadata onlyView diff
  2. Move PIM metadata to docfx.json and update ownership Metadata onlyView diff
  3. Moves ms.service to folder level in docfx.json. Metadata onlyView diff
  4. Moves manager metadata to folder level in docfx.json. Metadata onlyView diff
  5. PIM Articles added Metadata onlyView diff
  6. adding image meta data Metadata onlyView diff
  7. [ms-custom] Add MS Custom to entra-pr Metadata onlyView diff
  8. updating manager field Metadata onlyView diff
  9. minor date fix Metadata onlyView diff

No related evidence found in this installation's recent collection. This does not establish that no announcement exists.

Retained observations

  • 12 Oct 19:19 UTC · shown above
  • 6 Oct 17:27 UTC

    Source metadata changed; retained article content is unchanged.

  • 5 Oct 17:20 UTC

    Baseline for retained history; no earlier retained text to compare.

What changed

First observed 18 Oct 2026

No field changes in the recorded history.

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