Link configurations

The Link Configuration feature maps two configurations with different names allowing the Reconcile process to treat them as equivalent items during comparison operations. You can link configurations between any two tenants, or between a tenant and an industry baseline.

For instance, consider having two similar Conditional Access policies: 

• your baseline policy named “Baseline-BlockAdminPortalAccess” 
• and a tenant-specific policy named “Tenant-BlockAdminPortalAccess”. 

Although named differently, they share most of their properties. 

Using the linking process, you can link these related configurations. Once linked, the policies will be treated as a unified policy in the Reconcile view, enabling you to review and modify them as if they were named the same. 

To link configurations across tenants, follow the steps below.

Linking configurations procedure

1.    On the Reconcile page, select the “Link configurations” tab.

2. Select the primary tenant from the “Tenant” dropdown menu.
3. Select a second tenant for comparison.

The interface will display configuration lists from both tenants side by side.

4. Identify the configuration object in the first tenant. When making a selection, the second tenant list will automatically filter to show the corresponding objects of the same type. You can then select the configuration to be linked in the second tenant to create a mapping, regardless of name differences.

5. If needed, use the “Compare” button to view a property-level comparison of both configurations. 

This view displays property differences for review prior to linking the objects

6.  After confirming your selections, select the Link button.

7. Configuration Manager will reload the tenant data, and the total number of linked configurations will be displayed at the top of the page. You can view only the linked configurations by selecting the “Show only linked configurations” button.  This displays an icon next to each linked configuration pair.

Reconcile behavior for “linked configurations”

When running Reconcile between these tenants, the linked icon is shown next to each mapped configuration. 

The Reconcile process now treats these mapped configurations as the same object and evaluates their attribute differences directly, resolving discrepancies.