[Archived] Teams Real Simple with Pictures: Making Teams Just in Time with PIM for Groups

So I booked a holiday to Gran Canaria last week. The positives: time with the family, late summer sun, changing it up with the scenary and a great package and price. Negatives: it's on 20th September so large parts of my workload are now super time sensitive. It's going to be wild. For real. But here on the bank-holiday weekend in the UK I've got a little time to write: and today I have decided to do it on the idea of making Teams Just in Time (JIT) which, I guess, is a concept very applicable to my own situation. So why would we do this? Well, one of the issues we have in Teams is that we don't need access to all Teams all the time, and also we have access to Teams that sometimes we don't need to have access to all the time. In other words, there could be reasons why we need Just in Time access, and not need whats called standing access. For example, I need to access a Team for a day in order to access specific assets in that team, or apps built within that team. I am sure you can think of your own. Now, we could go down another route and use Entitlement Management, Access Packages and Access Reviews right? Yeah, we could. But let's say I only want to give access for a specific period of time, to do something specific and then the user is removed and has to apply again to be added to it, and that's all auditable at the same time. This is where PIM for groups will come into it's own, especially where Entra ID roles are group specific. A team which shows for a specific period of time to do what's needed and collaborate with others, and disapears again when the time limit is reached. I personally think this one is worth exploring as it could really change the way we think of Teams.