👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.
Live AMA: Ask the Entra Experts Anything!
A quick announcement: In a couple of weeks, my team (the Entra CxE Architecture Team) is holding an off-site. Forget trust falls and escape rooms! We’re doing the ultimate team-building exercise: a LIVE Ask Me Anything session with YOU!
That’s right, the entire Entra CxE Architecture team is clearing their calendars to tackle your biggest, boldest, and most baffling questions about Microsoft Entra. No question is too big or too small. We promise unscripted answers and a whole lot of identity talk.
Want to join the fun? Grab your spot below. Let’s do this!
This Week on Entra Chat: Mastering Bulk Operations
This week’s Entra Chat episode featured Yanyan, the first Entra Engineering Manager to join the show along with Sweta, the PM for Bulk Operations. Check it out 👇
Microsoft's Secret Weapon for M365 Admins: A 10x Faster Bulk Operations Tool
On this episode of Entra Chat, I was thrilled to sit down with Yanyan and Sweta from the Entra UI experience team to dive deep into a feature that many of us have used but is now getting a massive refresh: Bulk Operations.
Enjoy!
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🏆 General Availability
Driving transparency: New logging capabilities and attribute enhancements in Microsoft Entra • Shobhit Sahay
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From the community…
🚀 Most popular posts from last week
🥇 Entra ID – You can now manage Entra ID applications policies from the portal • Benoit Hamet
🥈 Recommended Application Policies for Microsoft Entra Apps • Daniel Bradley
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👩✈️ AI & Copilot
Implement a secure MCP server using OAuth and Entra ID • Damien Bowden
🧰 Workload ID
Entra ID Application Policies: Beware the Impact on SAML Signing Certificates • Gabriel Delaney
No, your NHIs can’t use passwords either! • Jan Bakker
👮♂️ ID Governance
Automate Inactive Users Management with Lifecycle Workflows • Ramya
How to Configure Lifecycle Workflows for Inactive Users • Daniel Bradley
🌐 Private Access & Internet Access (GSA)
Testing Policy Management and Prioritization in Entra Internet Access • Stefano Pescosolido
TLS Inspection in Microsoft Entra GSA Internet Access – Complete Configuration Guide • Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai
🔑 Authentication
Certificate-Based Authentication just got serious • Andrea Fisher, Mike Palitto
FIDO Cross Device Phishing • Dennis Kniep
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
Assembly Clashes Make Microsoft 365 PowerShell Frustrating • Tony Redmond
Microsoft Graph: a Practical Guide • Hailey Phillips
Practical Graph: Finding the Last App Accessed by a User • Tony Redmond
Updating the User Password and Authentication Report • Tony Redmond
📺 Microsoft Graph Preprocessor - PSConfEU 2025 (16 min) • Christian Ritter
🚦 Conditional Access
Token Protection: The Good, the Bad, and the Assumptions • Elli Shlomo
📺 Microsoft Entra Token Theft Protection | Stop Stolen Tokens Fast (5 min) • BTNHD
🔐 Credential Management
How to Configure Password Protection with Microsoft Graph • Daniel Bradley
🖥️ Devices
Autopilot, TAP, and the Reboot Problem • Mads Johansen
Enable SSO for Chrome using Intune: Step-by-Step Guide • Prajwal Desai
Fix Trusted Platform Module Error Code 80090016 • Prajwal Desai
🥷 Security
Common Initial Access Vectors via Phishing in the Microsoft Cloud World • Erica Zelic
Departmental Risk-Based Segmentation with Purview and Entra • Ankit Gupta
Secure Microsoft Entra ID: Real-World Strategies • Guillaume Bossiroy
Teams – New security options available in Teams to protect against phishing attacks • Benoit Hamet
Bypass for CVE-2024-9956 in Safari on iOS • Dennis Kniep
📺 The Entra ID Cross-Tenant Vulnerability Discovery – BHIS - Talkin’ Bou... • Black Hills Information Security
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📒 Tenant Configuration
Different Ways to Receive Emails on Unlicensed Admin Accounts in Microsoft 365 • Kanaga
Microsoft Entra ID Free Subscription: A New Way to Track Tenant Ownership Securely • Blesslin Rinu
🛍️ External ID - Customers
Customising your Password Reset emails with the “Email Otp Send” custom authentication extension in… • Rory Braybrook
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