Entra 🆔 News #109 → This week in Microsoft Entra
Learn about the Group SOA public preview, using Entra to discover shadow AI and more.
Hi everyone, Merill and Joshua here! It was a landmark week for Microsoft Entra. Here’s what you need to know:
🚀 The Big Release: Group Source of Authority has officially landed, giving admins powerful new ways to manage from the cloud.
🤖 Discover Shadow AI: New Entra features are here to help you shine a light on unsanctioned AI apps across your organization.
☀️ Summer Camp Videos: Catch up on the best sessions and insights from the Entra Suite Summer Camp.
🎙️ This Week's Entra Chat: Mastering Entra ID Governance
I had an incredible conversation with the brilliant Jef Kazimer. He took us on a deep dive into Entra ID Governance, demystifying licensing, workflows, and the future role of AI in identity. You don't want to miss this podcast!
Enjoy!
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⚡️ Microsoft
🔥 Public Preview
New governance tools for hybrid access and identity verification • Joseph Dadzie
Group SOA conversion: Cloud governance for legacy groups
Face check in entitlement management: Securing access with real-time identity verification
Uncover shadow AI, block threats, and protect data with Microsoft Entra Internet Access • Ashish Jain
Shadow AI & IT discovery: See what’s really being used
Threat intelligence filtering: Block malicious destinations in real time
Netskope One Advanced SSE integration: Extend data and threat protection to the web
📖 Read
Microsoft Entra Suite delivers 131% ROI by unifying identity and network access • Irina Nechaeva
Webinar Series: Microsoft Entra Suite Summer Camp • Kaitlin Murphy
📺 Watch
Adopt a Cloud-first strategy for Groups using Microsoft Entra (16 min) • Dhanyah Krishnamoorthy, Ramiro Calderon
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From the community…
🚀 Most popular posts from last week
🥇The 7 Most Forgotten Microsoft 365 Security Settings • Rudy Mens
🥈Finally! Private Access for Domain Controllers is Here • Dustin Gullett
🥉Legacy MFA & SSPR are retiring -How to migrate MFA and SSPR settings to the Authentication methods policy • Ewelina Paczkowska
☀️ Learn
⛑️ ID Protection
Blocking risky users with Passwordless Authentication methods • Daniel Bradley
👮♂️ ID Governance
🌐 Private Access & Internet Access (GSA)
🔑 Authentication
Gathering Data for a Windows Hello for Business Rollout • Joe Loveless
Microsoft to Roll out Automatic Registration for External Authentication Methods • Daniel Bradley
👥 User & Group Management
Converting AD Group SOA to Govern On-Prem Access via Entra ID • Shehan Perera
Did you know: My Groups and guest access restrictions • Vasil Michev
Entra ID – You can now change the source of authority for synced groups (preview) • Benoit Hamet
📺 Entra Group Source of Authority (Public Preview) (11 min) • Rio Hindle
📺 Entra Group Source of Authority CONVERSION! (40 min) • John Savill
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
Deploy Microsoft Entra ID Administrative Units using PowerShell • Brian Veldman
Graph: Retrieve Per User MFA state using List operator • Will Francillette
PowerShell is fun :)Using the Microsoft-Extractor-Suite PowerShell module for collecting Microsoft Online logs • Harm Veenstra
🚦 Conditional Access
Protect Copilot with Conditional Access • Jan Mulder
📺 Deploy Conditional Access in Minutes via M365 (16 min) • Rio Hindle
🖥️ Devices
Citrix DaaS – Filtering Published Apps with Entra ID Groups • Julian Jakob
Last Authentication Method Used • Jóhannes
📺 Let There Be Cloud-Native Endpoints • Shehan Perera
🏙️ External ID - Guests & Multi-Tenant Organizations
From Manual to Automatic: How Cross-Tenant Sync Transforms User Management • Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai
SharePoint integration with Entra B2B (2025) • Mattias Melkersen Kalvåg
🥷 Security
Tenant Restrictions - Handling personal Microsoft accounts on corporate devices • Jay Kerai
Consent & Compromise: Abusing Entra OAuth for Fun and Access to Internal Microsoft Applications • Vaisha Bernard
Investigating Document Exfiltration with the Graph Activity Log • Tony Redmond
Linkable Identifiers in Microsoft Entra ID: A Complete Guide • Praba
📺 Entra ID Token Protection for AVD & Windows 365 | Stop Stolen Tokens (15 min) • Neil McLoughlin
♻️ Sync
⚒️ Toolkit
Stop Flying Blind: Get Visibility into Your Entra ID Enterprise Applications • Matej Klemenčič
Restless guest - A cli toolkit that enables Entra tenant attacks through "restless guest" exploit. • Simon Maxwell-Stewart
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