Entra 🆔 News #101 → This week in Microsoft Entra
Learn about the Conditional Access features that just went GA, a very special podcast episode and more!
👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here!
We're so excited today because this issue marks our 101st newsletter! 🍾 We can't believe we've hit 100 editions, and we have a special celebration section waiting for you at the end of this email.
The party doesn't stop there—this week’s Entra Chat podcast features one of our most exciting guests yet. You won't want to miss it 👇.
Now, for the reason you're all here: the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.
Enjoy!
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Live Webinar: Protecting Workload Identities in Entra ID
🚩 Workload identities, such as service principals and managed identities, are essential for enabling seamless application-to-application communication in Microsoft Entra ID. However, these identities are increasingly targeted by attackers due to their elevated privileges and lack of robust security controls.
On June 18th @ 1 pm ET - Join ENow & MVPs Nicolas Blank & Alistair Pugin to learn how to mitigate these risks in Entra ID
Implement Conditional Access policies tailored for workload identities
Enforce least privilege principles to limit the scope of access for service principals
Monitor and audit workload identity usage to detect suspicious activity
⚡️ Microsoft
🏆 General Availability
New policy enhancement tools in Entra Conditional Access • Swaroop Krishnamurthy
Per-Policy Reporting - GA
Sign-in frequency – every time (session control) - GA
What-If Evaluation API - Public Preview
📺 Watch
Automate identity access management at scale with Conditional Access Optimization Agent • Lisa Huang North
🗣️ Message Center
From the community…
🚀 Most popular posts from last week
🥇Monitoring Microsoft Entra ID Break Glass Accounts: Best Practices & Real-Time Alerts Part 1/2 • Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai
🥈Avoid The Five Big Errors in Graph PowerShell Scripts • Tony Redmond
🥉Entra ID – New version of Entra ID Private Network Connector • Benoit Hamet
☀️ Learn
🧰 Workload ID
Entra ID Workload Identity Federation: Secure Workloads Without Secrets (with Terraform Demo) • Mateusz Jendza
👮♂️ ID Governance
👥 User & Group Management
Microsoft Entra Restricted Management Administrative Units: Delegating Control Without Sacrificing Security • Sebastian Flæng Markdanner
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
How to manage Entra ID’s banned password list via the Graph SDK for PowerShell • Vasil Michev
When the Invoke-MgGraphRequest Cmdlet Needs Help to Fetch Responses • Tony Redmond
Automating Microsoft Entra ID PIM Role Activation with PowerShell and Microsoft Graph • Marco Notarrigo
🚦 Conditional Access
🖥️ Devices
🏙️ External ID - Guests & Multi-Tenant Organizations
SharePoint Online Dumps OTP Authentication for Sharing Links • Tony Redmond
🥷 Security
Securing Microsoft 365 with Graph Activity Logs • Mezba Uddin
How to Defend Against Evolving Microsoft 365 Identities Attacks • Lokesh
Taming NHIs in Azure and AWS (part 2: foundations) • Christophe Parisel
🛍️ External ID - Customers
Provisioning user MFA programatically in Azure AD B2C • Rory Braybrook
⚒️ Toolkit
Entra ID Attack Paths • Jasper Baes
silhouette/formal at 2.1 · labyrinthinesecurity/silhouette - Belshazaar is a command-line tool for analyzing Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) actions to detect overly broad wildcard permissions. • Christophe Parisel
📺 Watch
QR Code Login for Frontline Workers • John Savill
Fix Identity Sprawl + Optimize Microsoft Entra • Microsoft Mechanics
Entra Resilience Deep Dive • John Savill
Stop Hackers Cold: Master PIM in Microsoft 365! • Jonathan Edwards
Entra ID & M365 as Code with DSC • Raimund Andree, Gael Colas
Azure AD B2C Transition Guide: Auth0 or Microsoft Entra External ID • Daniel Krzyczkowski
How to Deploy Zero Trust Conditonal Access in Minutes • Matt Chatt
💯+1: Celebrating 100 Weeks of Entra News 🎉🎊!
Can you believe it? It feels like just yesterday, but it was on July 16, 2023, that the very first Entra.News newsletter landed in inboxes.
What a journey it has been! 🗺️
Feeling nostalgic? Take a trip down memory lane and see how it all began. ⏪ Check out our very first edition right here!
The Road to 100, By the Numbers 📊
We've been busy! Here's a look at what we've built together over 100 editions:
💯 Newsletters Delivered
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A special shout-out to the titans of our Entra community! These are the top contributors whose posts have been featured the most over the last 100 newsletters. Thank you for sharing your knowledge so generously! 🏆
🥇 Tony Redmond
🥈 Daniel Bradley
🥉 Rory Braybrook
Ali Tajran
Vasil Michev
John Savill
Jan Bakker
Steve Weiner
Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai
Rudy Mens
Jonathan Edwards
Rio Hindle
Per-Torben Sorensen
Lukas Beran
From every corner of the globe, the Entra.News community is truly a worldwide phenomenon! 🌍
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