Question: how to set-up SSO with ALMA when PeopleSoft records don't contain the institutional Microsoft account identifier

Hello, I’m searching for an explanation and then perhaps documentation. Lakeland College’s Student Information System is PeopleSoft. As we migrate to ALMA, we’d like to import and synchronize student users from PeopleSoft to ALMA (which I am learning is considered as setting up an External user). Our institution’s IT department uses Microsoft Azure/Entra ID for Identity Management (students use their institutional Microsoft account for access to D2L as well as computer access on-campus). We wish for our students to be able to authenticate to view their account in ALMA/PRIMO using their institutional Microsoft account. But our students’ institutional Microsoft account information is not currently added to their records in PeopleSoft, therefore it will not appear in our user records in ALMA. I'm concerned that without a student's institutional email address appearing in their ALMA account, they won't be able to sign-in to their library account. How do other institutions import their students' Microsoft email addresses into ALMA? My main responsibilities are reference and instruction, so I am over my head on this aspect of our migration project! Ben
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