Entra 🆔 News #114 → This week in Microsoft Entra
Learn about ID Governance for guests, new guides from the community for passkey rollouts and more!
👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.
This week's edition is packed with practical solutions for the modern identity admin. Discover a "Poor Man's IGA" for offboarding on-prem accounts, find the PowerShell 'Easy Button' you've been waiting for, and learn how to find the exact Graph API permissions for any script. Dive in for tips that will save you time and effort!
Also, don’t miss out on our chat with Jeremy Conley from the Entra ID Governance team. He joined us to discuss the latest in Entra ID Governance for guests, including the newly GA'd monthly active users (MAU) billing model for guests.
The Great Debate: P2 vs. Entra ID Governance for Guests
Jeremy Conley, Principal Product Manager on the Identity Governance team at Microsoft, demystifies the world of guest access in Microsoft Entra. We discuss the hidden security risks that accumulate as guests are invited into a tenant and the governance challenges this creates.
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From the community…
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🥇The Essential Guide to Microsoft's Conditional Access Recommendations • Alf Løkken
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Poor Man's IGA - Beyond the Cloud How to Offboard On-Premises AD Accounts with Microsoft Graph • Suryendu Bhattacharyya
🌐 Private Access & Internet Access (GSA)
Guardrails for the Internet Lane: Rolling Out GSA Threat Intelligence • Dustin Gullett
How to Configure Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access Internet Access with Web Filtering Policies • Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai
🔑 Authentication
Deprecation Legacy Authentication Methods • Michael Vink
Improving passkey registration experiences • Nathan McNulty
Keeping My Passkeys in Sync Across Multiple FIDO2 Keys — A Simple PowerShell + fido2-manage Trick • Dr. Emin Huseynov
You shall not pass(key)! (updated) • Jan Bakker
📺 This Microsoft Entra Setting Could Put Your Microsoft 365 at Risk (7 min) • Jonathan Edwards
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
The M365 PowerShell 'Easy Button' You've Been Waiting For • JJ Milner
Breaking Free from AzureAD Provider Limitations: Why Microsoft Graph Terraform Provider is a Game-Changer for Entra ID Admins | LinkedIn • Suryendu Bhattacharyya
How to Find Required Graph API Permissions for any PowerShell Script • Gabriel Delaney
🚦 Conditional Access
Building Scalable Conditional Access - A Policy Framework for Zero Trust • Alf Løkken
Conditional Access Essentials: Managing Exclusions with Identity Governance and Temporary Access Pass • Ewelina Paczkowska
🖥️ Devices
Support tip: Troubleshoot device cap reached when enrolling devices into Microsoft Intune • Intune Support Team
Configure Platform SSO for macOS using Intune • Prajwal Desai
🏙️ External ID - Guests & Multi-Tenant Organizations
Simple, Reliable Cross-Cloud Teams Collaboration in GCC High • Arvind Suthar
📒 Tenant Configuration
Can I restore deleted Entra objects? Yes? No? Maybe? • Klaus Bierschenk
🛍️ External ID - Customers
Deleting Custom Extensions in Entra External ID • Brian Reid
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