Workload identities

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Entra · Official Microsoft guidance

No content change seen yet. Watched since 8 Oct 23:14 UTC, last read 19 Oct 23:56 UTC, next check today 23:56 UTC. Microsoft's own edits are listed below.

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Timeline

From the capture of 8 Oct 23:14 UTC · an earlier observation

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3 recorded changes

Microsoft's revision log on this page · 6 entries

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What are workload identities?Requirement1 condition
What are workload identities?Requirement1 condition
What are workload identities?Exception1 condition
Need for securing workload identitiesRecommendation1 condition
Need for securing workload identitiesException2 conditions
Agent identities for AI workloadsRequirement1 condition

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How this timeline changed

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21 Apr 2026
Requirement added Agent identities for AI workloads Microsoft's source, commit 1bff044
18 Sep 2023
No longer on the page Need for securing workload identities Microsoft's source, commit e7c6394
18 Sep 2023
Exception added Need for securing workload identities Microsoft's source, commit e7c6394

Observed history and review priority

Captured 8 Oct 23:14 UTC; extracted 16 Oct 16:11 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/fc65ebeb286710c0a830833db8a7e5de7e266b79981fe9c7c34479be9369ad3c/legacy.

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Retained observations · 13

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13 Oct 00:08 UTC · 4 candidates
8 Oct 23:14 UTC · 6 candidates
8 May 16:03 UTC · 4 candidates
21 Apr 17:36 UTC · 4 candidates
20 Sep 2024 19:44 UTC · 3 candidates
29 May 2024 13:56 UTC · 3 candidates
20 Oct 2023 07:55 UTC · 3 candidates
20 Oct 2023 00:50 UTC · 3 candidates
10 Oct 2023 15:29 UTC · 3 candidates
18 Sep 2023 22:09 UTC · 3 candidates
15 Aug 2023 02:14 UTC · 3 candidates
10 Mar 2023 20:00 UTC · 3 candidates
8 Mar 2023 18:26 UTC · 3 candidates

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 23:40 UTC.

8 May 16:03 UTC Incorporate feedback to remove blueprints from workload identities overview Served on LearnView diff
21 Apr 17:36 UTC Agentic Governance test 02 View diff
20 Sep 2024 19:44 UTC [BULK] [ID Protection] Branding Fixes View diff
29 May 2024 13:56 UTC status View diff
20 Oct 2023 07:55 UTC link fixups pass4 View diff
20 Oct 2023 00:50 UTC link fixups pass1 View diff
10 Oct 2023 15:29 UTC [BULK] DocuTune - Follow-up revisions for Azure AD View diff
18 Sep 2023 22:09 UTC [BULK] - DocuTune - Rebranding of Azure Active Directory to Microsoft Entra View diff
15 Aug 2023 02:14 UTC [BULK] DocuTune - Update stale local links View diff
10 Mar 2023 20:00 UTC Apply pencil edits for blocking issues from PR review View diff
8 Mar 2023 18:26 UTC overview updates View diff

9 metadata-only edits · author, dates or topic labels, no article text

25 Feb 21:26 UTC [BULK UPDATE] Metadata: Move author/ms.author/manager/ms.service/ms.subservice to folder level (1/5) Metadata onlyView diff
21 May 2025 17:23 UTC updating author Metadata onlyView diff
13 Mar 2025 19:12 UTC Update workload-identities-overview.md Metadata onlyView diff
20 Feb 2025 00:13 UTC Changing to overview type Metadata onlyView diff
13 Mar 2024 17:40 UTC BULK conceptual to concept-article workload-id, external-id Metadata onlyView diff
12 Feb 2024 19:41 UTC [Microsoft Entra] BULK Metadata Update - Microsoft Entra Workload ID Metadata onlyView diff
8 Feb 2024 01:10 UTC [BULK] - DocuTune - Remove obsolete ms.workload me Metadata onlyView diff
10 Jan 2024 22:05 UTC Reviewed article Metadata onlyView diff
11 Aug 2023 21:59 UTC Reviewed Metadata onlyView diff

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Retained observations

13 Oct 00:08 UTC
8 removed passages (about 50 words). The changed wording mentions prerequisites. Review the source to confirm the effect.
8 Oct 23:14 UTC · shown above

What changed

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