Fix Azure PIM catch-22: discover eligible roles without standing subscription access#9
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[WIP] Add PIMActivation to pull eligible Azure role assignments
Fix Azure PIM catch-22: discover eligible roles without standing subscription access
Apr 9, 2026
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Users with zero standing Azure access hit a dead end:
Get-AzSubscriptionrequires subscription read rights, but subscription access requires activating a PIM role, which requires discovering eligible roles first.Changes
Get-AzureResourceRoles.ps1Get-AzSubscription -ErrorAction Stop→@(Get-AzSubscription -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)— eliminates the throw when the account has no subscription visibilityInvoke-AzRestMethodat tenant scope to enumerate eligible role assignments — this endpoint requires only an authenticated context, not subscription read accessUserObjectIdbefore embedding in the OData filter stringThe fallback returns the same role object shape as the normal subscription-enumeration path, so downstream consumers are unaffected.