Microsoft Entra ID Governance
Answer: Current identity-governance capabilities are licensed through Microsoft Entra ID Governance or Microsoft Entra Suite; some capabilities that were generally available in Entra ID P2 remain available under P2, but new governance capabilities are not added to P2.
Administrator playbook
Decide, verify, and document
Use the curated answer as a starting point, then prove the outcome against the target tenant or device.
What it means
- Licensing depends on who can request, review, receive, or benefit from governed access
- Guest and agent scenarios can use different billing rules
- PIM, entitlement management, access reviews, and lifecycle workflows have capability-specific boundaries
What to check next
- Identify the exact governance feature and population
- Use Microsoft's current licensing-scenario examples to count required licenses
- Confirm whether the required capability is in P2, ID Governance, or the Entra Suite
Verify success
- Confirm the SKU is assigned to every benefiting user or covered device.
- Confirm the required service plan is enabled, not merely present in the tenant.
- Re-test the exact feature after license propagation and record the result.
Escalate when
- Microsoft documentation and the tenant SKU/service-plan view disagree.
- The feature remains unavailable after assignment and normal propagation.
- A purchase or renewal decision depends on contract-specific product terms.
Copyable admin briefAnswer, next checks, source, and review date
List subscribed SKUs
Get-MgSubscribedSku | Select-Object SkuPartNumber,ConsumedUnits,PrepaidUnitsRead-only. Confirms tenant inventory; it does not prove that a service plan is enabled for a specific user.
Evidence to preserve
- Current family
- Entra ID Governance or Entra Suite
- Legacy boundary
- Some GA capabilities remain in Entra ID P2
- Counting
- Feature-specific benefiting population
- Exact feature and workload
- Users or devices benefiting from it
- Assigned SKU and enabled service plans
- Tenant region and purchase channel