Standardize Entra ID groups across every client tenant

Conditional Access, Defender and Intune all target groups. Create Entra ID groups from templates, deploy a standardized group baseline to a tenant, and give every policy the same groups to point at in every client.

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Group templates with standardized names and descriptions

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A group baseline into the tenants that need it

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Target

Conditional Access, Defender and Intune against the same groups

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Exportable evidence mapped to recognized standards

Why policy rollouts stall on groups
Every tenant names things differently

One client has “MFA Exclusions”, the next has “CA-Exempt”, the third has a group somebody created in a hurry. The same policy has to be re-scoped by hand in every tenant.

Groups are built at policy time

A Conditional Access or Intune rollout stops halfway while a tech goes and creates the groups it needed. The structure gets invented per client instead of coming from a standard.

One admin center per client

The Entra admin center is single-tenant. Across every client an MSP manages, routine group work means a login per client, or a script somebody now owns and maintains.

Entra ID group management built for a base of tenants
Create static and dynamic groups from one console

Add groups to a client tenant without opening the Entra admin center. Pick the type — Microsoft 365 or security, static or dynamic membership — enter the details, review, and save. Routine group work stops being a per-tenant login.

Dynamic membership rules, written once

Dynamic groups are the ones worth having and the ones nobody wants to build — the membership rule gets written, tested and retyped in every tenant. Capture it in a template once and it comes with the group, along with the naming and description pattern, so a dynamic group is as quick to stand up as a static one and named the same way in every tenant.

Deploy a group baseline to a tenant

Select the baseline, check the deployment settings, review, and deploy. A standardized set of groups and enrollment lands in the tenant as one action, so a new client starts on the same structure as every other client.

The foundation Conditional Access, Defender and Intune sit on

Those policies assign to groups. With a standardized group structure already in place, a policy deploys across the base without its assignments being rebuilt per client, and an exclusion group means the same thing in every tenant.

Groups are what an auditor asks about

Who has access, who is in the admin group, who was excluded from a control — the answers live in Entra ID groups, and every framework asks for them. Because the group structure is standardized in Augmentt, that evidence exports in a click instead of being rebuilt by hand per client. And when a control needs premium Microsoft licensing, the view says so, turning a compliance gap into a licensing conversation.

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HIPAA
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Native admin centers vs. Augmentt

The same five jobs, done per tenant or done once.

The job
Create a group in a client tenant
Keep naming consistent
Stand up a new client's group structure
Keep the automation working
Prove it to a client or auditor
Entra admin center + scripts
One login per tenant, one screen at a time
A convention in a document, followed when someone remembers
Built by hand, or copied from whichever tenant looked closest
Microsoft changes an API or a module and the scripts need reworking
Screenshots assembled by hand before the QBR
Microsoft 365 or security groups created from the same console
Group templates carrying the name and description pattern
Deploy a group baseline with reviewed deployment settings
Microsoft changes are absorbed by the platform, not by your team
Exportable posture reporting mapped to recognized standards
Three steps to a standard that holds

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Connect the tenants

Connect through your CSP relationship in Partner Center, with Magic Link onboarding and GDAP automation for tenants outside it. Most MSPs are already connected for user management and licensing.

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Set the standard once

Define the group templates and the baseline the practice runs on, with the names, descriptions and enrollment every client tenant should end up with.

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Deploy and build on it

Push the baseline into the tenants that need it, then deploy Conditional Access, Defender and Intune policy against groups that already mean the same thing everywhere.

What changes for your team

The same coverage pays off differently depending on which seat you sit in.

A security stack that deploys the same way every time
No Entra admin center per client

"We built an entire managed service around the Augmentt platform so we can sell our customers a service that will keep their tenants up to date and configured all the time rather than needing to do these professional services engagements periodically."

Tim Campbell
Practice Director, All Covered
Microsoft Entra ID coverage FAQs

Common questions from MSPs evaluating multi-tenant identity management.

What is multi-tenant Entra ID group management?

It is creating and standardizing Microsoft Entra ID groups across many client tenants from one console instead of building them by hand in each tenant. Groups are created new or from a template, and a baseline of standardized group names and enrollment can be deployed to a tenant.

A reusable definition of a group — its type and its naming and description pattern — applied when adding groups to a tenant. Name and description can still be adjusted before saving, so a template is a consistent starting point rather than a locked result.

A baseline is a set of standardized groups deployed together. The baseline is selected, deployment settings are checked and the whole thing is reviewed before it is applied, so the same group structure lands in every client tenant.

Microsoft 365 groups (including dynamic) and security groups, with static or dynamic membership. Dynamic membership rules can be carried in a template, so the rule does not have to be rewritten in each tenant.

Those policies target groups. When group names and enrollment mean the same thing in every tenant, a policy can be deployed across the base without rewriting its assignments per client, and an exclusion group means the same thing everywhere.

It removes the need to open the Entra admin center per client for routine group work. Groups are created, templated and deployed across managed tenants from one screen, on the GDAP permissions already in place.

Yes. Group membership and exclusions are exactly what frameworks ask about, and checks map to recognized standards — CIS, SOC 2, HIPAA, CMMC, NIST CSF and Essential Eight. Posture is exportable, so the report a client sees and the evidence an auditor sees come from the same source.

Yes. Microsoft Entra ID sits alongside Conditional Access, Microsoft Intune, Defender, Microsoft Purview, SharePoint and OneDrive sharing, and Microsoft Teams policy in the same multi-tenant console.

Put every client on the same group structure

Connect your tenants, set the group templates and baseline your practice runs on, and stop rebuilding the same structure client by client.

HIPAA

Healthcare & BAAs
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NIST / CIS

Safety standards

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CMMC

Federal contracting & DoD
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