How can we setup a test flow for our SCIM groups features without having to pay for an Azure subscription?

Question

I work at a SaaS company providing a SCIM feature to our customers. We are building functionality related to SCIM Groups, and as of now, we are not able to test these features properly with Azure, since we don't have an Azure workspace with a paid plan that includes SCIM groups functionality.

The team has been trying so many thing to try to get this to work, including spending a lot of time trying to find a support person to talk through, without success. So hoping for some guidance from the community.

First of all, do you know the best way to set up a testing environment with SCIM features if we don't use Azure internally, hence have no other reason to have a paid subscription than this sole purpose?

We had hopes the developer program would cover this, but from what we so far have found out, Azure is not included (if we're wrong, some guidance would be much appreciated).

We have stumbled upon several other problems in the process of setting up a new Azure workspace for testing purposes, but can go into detail of those problems once we know if that is the right thing to do.

Would very much appreciate help in this regard,

Best
Hedda

Answer 1

There are two easy solutions here:

1. https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program
2. Provisioning groups doesn't require any licenses, but assigning groups to an application does. You can configure a provisioning job with "Sync All Users and Groups" and it will no longer look to the User and Groups assignment section that requires premium licensing. You can then use the Scoping Filters feature to narrow down which users/groups are provisioned, rather than actually provisioning all users/groups in the tenant.