Domain Federation & Trust Audit
The question it answers: Which domains are federated to another identity provider, and are their trusts and signing certificates sound?
A federated domain hands authentication for its users to another identity provider. Attackers who gain Global Administrator add a federation to keep access (“Golden SAML”), and an expired signing certificate stops every sign-in for the domain. This report lists every domain, its trust, certificate expiry and whether Entra accepts the IdP’s MFA claim.
At a glance
Section titled “At a glance”| Where in the app | Entra ID › Identity Configuration › Domain Federation & Trust |
| Workload | Entra ID |
| Kind | Findings list · dashboard tile |
| Data | Read from Microsoft 365 when someone first opens it, then kept for the report cache lifetime (Settings > Data & cache, 1 hour unless changed). |
| Licence | No extra licence needed. |
| Report id (API and MCP) | entra.configuration.domain-federation |
Columns
Section titled “Columns”| Column | Key | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Severity | Severity | Status |
| Authentication | Category | Text |
| Domain | Subject | Link |
| Check | Setting | Text |
| Value | Value | Text |
| Finding | Finding | Text |
| Details | Detail | Text |
| Certificate expires | When | Date |
| Users | Number | Number |
A findings list hides columns that no row fills. Severity is Critical, Serious, Warning, OK or Info; rows rated Critical, Serious or Warning need attention (Working with findings).
What it needs
Section titled “What it needs”Licence: No extra licence needed.
Application permissions on the IntensiveReports app registration (all permissions):
| Permission | API | What it allows | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
Domain.Read.All | Microsoft Graph | Read domains | |
User.Read.All | Microsoft Graph | Read all users’ full profiles | users per domain |
Data sources it reads
GET /v1.0/domainsGET /v1.0/domains/{id}/federationConfiguration
Through the API and MCP
Section titled “Through the API and MCP”GET /ir-api/v1/reports/entra.configuration.domain-federation?size=100An AI assistant reads it with the MCP tool get_report and the id entra.configuration.domain-federation. The client needs the Read grant for Entra ID. See Using the API.