Daily workflows
Morning: triage open alerts
- Dashboard → look at the Open alerts card. Critical (red) first.
- Click Alerts tab → filter to Open.
- For each alert:
breakglass.signin- a break-glass account signed in. Confirm this was a known fire drill / outage response. If not, treat as incident.breakglass.membership_changed- someone was added or removed from the break-glass group. Open Break-glass for the roster and recent changes.breakglass.exclusion_missing- a blocking CA policy does not exclude break-glass. Open Break-glass (or propose a policy assignment change) before you need emergency access.exclusion.expired- the cron has marked an exclusion as expired. Open the tenant's Time-bound access page and use Sync N expired to Entra to remove the user from the group (this is intentionally a manual operator action, not auto-dispatch).policy.changed_in_portal- someone edited a CA policy directly in the Azure portal. Click into the tenant's Drift page to see what changed vs. baseline.
- Acknowledge each handled alert. The audit log records who acknowledged what.
Mid-day: drift check on important customers
- Dashboard → sort by Last resync ascending.
- Click any tenant that hasn't resynced in 24h+ → Resync now on the tenant detail page.
- Open Drift → review the critical-severity gaps. A "missing" critical policy from the tenant's comparison baseline is the biggest red flag.
- If something needs fixing → Propose change to start a change-request workflow.
Customer support escalation: "User X is locked out"
- Tenant detail → Sign-ins → enter the user's UPN, filter to Failure, 7-day window.
- Find the failing sign-in → see which CA policy blocked + the failure reason.
- Open Users (or click the UPN on Sign-ins) → /tenants//users/ for lockout triage. Policies are ranked by failure count.
- Decide:
- Genuine block (user tried to sign in from a blocked country) → educate the user, no action.
- Misconfigured (user shouldn't be in scope) → Propose change to fix the policy assignment, dry-run + apply.
- Time-limited exception (exec traveling, vendor needs access) → click Time-bound access on the triage row. The form prefills group + user from Graph when possible. Approve → user is added to the exclusion group until expiry.
End of week: MFA posture review
- Tenant detail → MFA for each customer.
- Look at Stale admins - admins whose registered methods haven't been touched in >180 days. Flag for the customer.
- Look at Amber users - using SMS-only methods. These are the easiest upgrades (Authenticator push).
Cross-customer fleet view
For MSPs with many tenants, the Tenants list (/tenants) shows consent state, drift signals, and quick links into each customer. Use filters and search to find tenants that need attention.