Other features or issues related to Microsoft Partner Center
Condicional Access only use Partner Center
I'm a CSP partner admin and I need to restrict a specific group of ~50-60 users so they can ONLY access Partner Center, while all other Office 365 and Azure workloads are blocked for them.
What I want to achieve:
- Target group: a specific security group of users
- Blocked: all Office 365 services (Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive) and Azure management (Azure portal, ARM, Az CLI/PowerShell)
- Must keep working: Partner Center (partner.microsoft.com) sign-in and normal usage
What I've tried:
I created a Conditional Access policy with:
- Users: the target security group (break-glass accounts excluded)
- Target resources > Cloud apps > Include: "Office 365" and "Microsoft Azure Management"
- Grant: Block access
- Started in report-only, then enabled
The problem:
This is not producing the result I expected — [describe exactly what happens here: e.g., "Partner Center access is also being blocked" OR "the Office 365 / Azure block is not taking effect" OR the specific error/AADSTS code the user sees].
Questions:
- What is the correct way to scope a CA policy so Office 365 and Azure are blocked but Partner Center sign-in continues to work?
- Which cloud app / service principal does Partner Center (partner.microsoft.com) authenticate against, and does blocking "Office 365" or "Microsoft Azure Management" indirectly affect it?
- Is the recommended pattern "block only Office 365 + Azure Management" or "block All cloud apps and exclude the Partner Center app(s)"? If the latter, which exact app IDs should be excluded?
- Does Microsoft Graph need to remain unblocked for Partner Center to function, and if so how should that be handled in the policy?
Environment:
- Tenant type: CSP partner tenant (partner.microsoft.com enrolled)
- Entra ID license: [P1 / P2]
- Policy state: [report-only / on]
Any guidance on the correct cloud app scoping would be appreciated. Thank you.