Automate PIM Approval using Teams Approvals

Question

Is it possible to use Approvals in Teams to approve PIM Activation requests?

Answer 1

Hi @Chris Meisner

Teams tags is mainly focused on the general issue of Microsoft Teams troubleshooting. Since your question is related to approvals, which is not in our support scope. The following idea is just for your reference.

Is it possible to use Approvals in Teams to approve PIM Activation requests?

Yes, it is possible to use Approvals in Teams to approve PIM Activation requests. You can create an approval flow in Power Automate that triggers when a new PIM Activation request is submitted, and then use the Approvals action in Power Automate to create an approval request in Teams. When the request is approved or rejected, the flow can update the PIM Activation request accordingly.

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Answer 2

@Chris Meisner Thank you for reaching out to us, As I understand you are looking for an option where you can approve PIM activation requests via Teams channel.

Approving PIM activation requests via Teams is not possible at this point of time, I have seen few experts mentioning this can be achieved via Power automate, couldn't find relevant documentation with the steps which I can share here.

Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1252616/send-request-to-activate-the-member-role-for-pim-g

You can share your feedback over here - https://feedback.azure.com/d365community/search/22920db1-ad25-ec11-b6e6-000d3a4f0789?q=teams+channel+PIM where similar requirement has been asked to be added as feature request, post your request as this is closely monitored by our product group team.

Let me know if you have any further questions, feel free to post back.

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Answer 3

"Power Automate that triggers when a new PIM Activation request is submitted" - @JimmyYang-MSFT I'm trying to do exactly this, do you know what the trigger is for a new PIM activation? I can't see anything obvious