Configuring Sponsors for Guest User ( B2B) and External Member (B2B)

The sponsor feature helps manage B2B users in your directory by tracking who is responsible for each guest user. While entitlement management can monitor guests from certain domains, it does not cover guests outside of these specific areas. With the sponsor feature, you can assign a person or group to every guest user, which helps track who invited them and promotes accountability.

The Sponsors field on the user object identifies the person or group tasked with managing and overseeing the user's lifecycle, ensuring they have the correct access to resources. Being a sponsor does not confer administrative powers to the sponsor user or group. However, it can be utilized for approval processes in entitlement management and for custom solutions, but it provides no other built-in directory powers.

Supported Features

Aggregation and provisioning of sponsors for Guest User ( B2B) and External Member (B2B).

Adding Sponsors to the source

To use this feature, you must manually add the sponsors attribute to the Account Schema for the Microsoft Entra source. For more information, refer to Editing an Account Schema.

Provisioning

You can assign any user or group from Microsoft Entra to act as a sponsor for B2B Guest and External Member B2B users.

When provisioning a Microsoft Entra user as a sponsor, the connector requires the user's User Principal Name (UPN). For example, someone@example.com.

Conversely, if you are provisioning a Microsoft Entra group as a sponsor, the connector expects the group's Object ID to be included in the request.