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🚀 The Future is Now: AI in Microsoft Entra is Here!

This week marks a significant leap forward in the world of Microsoft Entra with the General Availability of two groundbreaking AI-powered features:

Security Copilot in Microsoft Entra: Now generally available, Security Copilot brings the power of AI to your identity and access management. Ask complex questions in natural language, investigate security risks with greater speed, and get actionable insights to protect your environment.
Conditional Access Optimization Agent: This new agent, also now generally available, automates the optimization of your Conditional Access policies, helping you to identify and close security gaps proactively.

This is a pivotal moment for identity security, check out the video walk throughs to explore these new capabilities.

✈️ Merill On the Road: Upcoming Conference Appearances

Get ready to connect in person! Merill will be speaking at two upcoming conferences in the United States:

The Experts Conference (TEC): Join Merill in Minneapolis from September 30th to October 1st for this premier event focused on Microsoft security and management.
Workplace Ninjas US: Catch Merill in Dallas, Texas, from December 9th to 10th for the inaugural Workplace Ninjas US conference, a deep dive into endpoint management, identity and security.

If you're attending either of these events, be sure to connect with Merill. We look forward to seeing you there!

🎙️ Entra Chat Podcast & The "Entra IDol of the Year" Finalists

This week on the Entra Chat podcast, we were joined by the insightful Jon Towles, who gave us a sneak peek into the upcoming Workplace Ninjas conference.

A major highlight of the episode was Jon's announcement of the finalists for the prestigious "Entra IDol of the Year" Clippy Award! A huge congratulations to the following individuals for their outstanding contributions to the Entra community:

🌟 Daniel Bradley
🌟 Eric Woodruff
🌟 Michael Mardahl
🌟 Thomas Naunheim

We're incredibly proud of the work these individuals do and can't wait to see who takes home the award.

Enjoy the rest of your week, and stay secure!

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🏆 General Availability

Smarter identity security starts with AI • Alex Simons
- Conditional Access Optimization Agent in Microsoft Entra
- Security Copilot in Microsoft Entra
Improving IT efficiency with Microsoft Security Copilot in Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Entra • Dorothy Li

🔥 Public Preview

Configure Microsoft Entra Private Access for Active Directory Domain Controllers - Global Secure Access • Microsoft Learn

📖 Read

Protecting customers from Octo Tempest attacks across multiple industries • Microsoft Defender Security Research Team
Microsoft Identity Bounty - New in-scope domains• Microsoft (MSRC)

📺 Watch

Conditional Access Optimization Agent in Microsoft Entra + Security Copilot in Entra updates (9 min) • Diana Vicezar
📺 Microsoft Security Copilot Entra Update and Conditional Access Agent (21 min) • John Savill

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From the community…

🚀 Most popular posts from last week

🥇Configuring M365 Company Branding & Privacy Settings: Simple Tricks to Reduce Phishing Risks • Ewelina Paczkowska
🥈Conditional Access as a Code with DevOps and PowerShell – Part 1 • Nikolay Marinov
🥉Understand the Difference Between SMS Sign-In and SMS MFA • Ramya

☀️ Learn

👩‍✈️ AI & Copilot

Copilot Studio Agent Vulnerability to Prompt Injection • Tony Redmond
What’s the difference between NHI and AI agents—and why it matters • Zev Brodsky

💳 Verified ID

📺 I'm Just George - Living in a Decentralized Identity World - Identiverse 2025 (26 min) • George Roberts

👮‍♂️ ID Governance

Managing PIM-enabled groups with Entra ID Governance Access Packages just got better! • Jan Bakker
Privileged Identity Management and Authentication Contexts! • Mark Orr
Activate you PIM Roles with PowerShell Pt 2. • Mark Orr
Audit PIM Role Activations in Microsoft Entra • Ramya
Microsoft Entra Access Package Visibility Is Changing • Praba

📦 Apps

Entra: Use managed identities as federated credentials to connect to Defender for Endpoint API • Will Francillette
Understanding Entra ID App Registrations, Enterprise Applications and Service Principals Part 2 • Martin Heusser

🔑 Authentication

The Push for Passwordless Authentication and What It Means for You • Rod Trent

🤖 DevOps & PowerShell

📺 A Friendly Graph PowerShell Survival Guide - PSConfEU 2025 (45 min) • Aleksandar Nikolić
📺 Configuring Azure Entra ID and M365 with DSC - PSConfEU 2025 (106 min) • Gael Colas, Raimund Andree

🚦 Conditional Access

Conditional Access Gone Too Far: Navigating Zero Trust Edge Cases • Nathan Hutchinson
Conditional Access Optimization Agent • Julian Rasmussen

🏙️ External ID - Guests & Multi-Tenant Organizations

How to Find All Inactive Guests in Microsoft 365 • Daniel Bradley

🥷 Security

“Evil VM”: From Guest Compromise To Entra Admin In 9 Easy Steps • Simon Maxwell-Stewart
High-Profile Cloud Privesc • Leonidas Tsaousis
I SPy: Escalating to Entra ID's Global Admin with a first-party app • Katie Knowles
📺 Bringing Your Own Identity Provider to Entra for Persistence and MFA Bypasses (46 min) • Dirk-jan Mollema
📺 How Hackers Bypass Microsoft 365 MFA (Live Demo with Jon Jarvis) (10 min) • Jonathan Edwards

♻️ Sync

📺 New Microsoft Entra Connect Feature for July 2025! (12 min) • Dean Ellerby

📒 Tenant Configuration

How to Elevate Global Admin Access in Microsoft Entra ID to Manage All Azure Subscriptions • Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai
📺 Four New Features - What's New in Entra ID - July 2025 edition! (8 min) • Dean Ellerby

🛍️ External ID - Customers

Deploy Microsoft Entra External ID tenant using Azure Bicep • Brian Veldman
Some notes on migrating from Azure AD B2C to Entra External ID • Rory Braybrook

⚒️ Toolkit

Release PIM-Global v3.0.0 · markorr321/PIM-Global • Mark Orr
Entra ID Group Membership Manager extension • Ofir Gavish
- OfirGavish/EntraExtension • OfirGavish

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