Organizations today collaborate with an ever-growing number of external partners, contractors, vendors, and consultants. While Microsoft Entra Guest Accounts make external collaboration seamless, ensuring those guests continue to need access has traditionally required significant administrative oversight. Microsoft is addressing this challenge with Manage Sponsored Guests in My Account (Preview) , a new capability that helps sponsors directly participate in guest lifecycle governance. Why Sponsored Guests Matter A sponsor is the person or group responsible for a guest user's ongoing relationship with an organization. Sponsors are often the people best positioned to answer critical questions: Does this guest still need access? Is the business relationship still active? Should access be extended or removed? Rather than relying solely on IT administrators to make these decisions, Microsoft Entra now enables sponsors to review and manage the guests they are responsible for through the ...