Entra 🆔 News #111 → This week in Microsoft Entra
Check out two new public previews and more!
👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra goodness! It's a packed issue, but here are the highlights:
⚡️ Straight from Microsoft: Two new Public Previews are here! Get the details on Entra Private Access for DCs and the new and improved bulk operations in the Entra Admin portal.
👮♂️ Harden Your Tenant: Don't miss the essential guides on stopping MFA hijacks, finding holes in your Conditional Access policies, and avoiding common identity security pitfalls.
🤖 Automate Everything: Level up your IaC game with new articles on Bicep for Entra groups, Terraform for Graph resources, and advanced PowerShell scripting.
🔑 Master the Fundamentals: Dive deep into Authentication Contexts, Managed Identities 2.0, and why Admin Units are a hidden gem.
There's a ton of great content from the community this week.
🎙️ For the True Entra Geeks: Tune into this week's Entra Chat podcast. Tarek delivers a fantastic deep dive into Entra’s cell-based architecture, the Entra backup authentication service and more. It's more than you need for your day job, but totally worth the watch!
Inside Entra Resilience: Microsoft's Outage War Stories, Backup Secrets and Preventing Global Outages
In this episode, I sit down with my boss, Tarek Dawoud, to pull back the curtain on what really happens during a major service outage.
Enjoy the read!
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⚡️ Microsoft
🔥 Public Preview
Microsoft Entra Private Access for Domain Controllers is now in Public Preview • Ashish Jain
Bulk operations in Microsoft Entra ID (Preview) • Microsoft Learn
From the community…
🚀 Most popular posts from last week
🥇 Entra Authentication Overview • Niklas Tinner
🥈 From NTLM to Passwordless: How Entra ID & Windows Hello for Business Protect Your Identity • Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai
🥉 17 Effective Ways to Prevent Oversharing in Microsoft 365 • Aima
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☀️ Learn
👩✈️ AI & Copilot
🧰 Workload ID
Managed Identities 2.0 From Tokens To Circuits • Christophe Parisel
📺 Azure File Sync Managed Identity Short • John Savill
👮♂️ ID Governance
Configure Whether Requestors Can See Access Package Approver Details • Daniel Bradley
🔑 Authentication
Mastering Microsoft Entra Authentication Contexts – Part 1: What They Are, Why They Matter, and How to Use The • Sebastian Flæng Markdanner
Reporting Authentication Method Usage Data via the Graph • Tony Redmond
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
IaC using Bicep for Entra ID and AD Groups with writeback • Frank van Zandwijk
Report on partial license assignments via the Graph SDK for PowerShell • Vasil Michev
Terraform for Microsoft Graph resources • Brian Veldman
🚦 Conditional Access
Conditional Access Essentials: Naming conventions, personas, emergency access & design process • Ewelina Paczkowska
Teams AOSP Phone; Conditional Access Blocks vs Grant • Rakhesh Sasidharan
📺 Stop MFA Hijacks: The One Conditional Access Policy You're Missing (9 min) • Jonathan Edwards
🖥️ Devices
Modern Server Management – Entra ID based SSH Login on Linux with Azure Arc • Mattias Melkersen Kalvåg
The Many Ways To Get Local Admin from Cloud Control Plane(s) • Jay Kerai
🥷 Security
📺 Finding Holes in Conditional Access Policies | CypherCon 8.0 (29 min) • Brandon Colley
Bypassing Enrollment Restrictions to Break BYOD Barriers in Intune • Yuya Chudo
📺 Identity Security Pitfalls: Common Issues and Misconfigurations in Entra... (46 min) • Alistair Pugin
📒 Tenant Configuration
Controlling Access to Microsoft 365 Entra ID Apps Part #3 • Ingo Gegenwarth
Entra Admin Units are a hidden gem! • Per-Torben Sørensen
Getting Started with Intune – Some things to watch • Andrew Taylor
📺 5 Microsoft Entra Security Features You Might Not Know About (14 min) • T-Minus365
📺 New Entra ID Features Every Admin MUST Know (19 min) • Andy Malone
🔥 Maester
Introduction to Compensating Controls • Mike Soule
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