Entra 🆔 News #124 → This week in Microsoft Entra

All the Entra Ignite news in one place...

👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.

We are fresh off Microsoft Ignite with a packed edition covering the dawn of the “Agentic Era.” The big headlines? Microsoft Entra Agent ID is here to secure agentic identities, and Synced Passkeys are finally making phishing-resistant auth seamless. Plus, Security Copilot is now included in Microsoft 365 E5!

From official announcements to community deep dives on the new security baselines, we have curated everything you need to catch up on the news from the conference. Also, make sure to check the end of this newsletter for a visual walkthrough of the Entra announcements.

🎧 PS We sat down to recap the biggest hits from Ignite, breaking down the reality of Agent ID and what Synced Passkeys mean for your 2025 roadmap. Add to your podcast queue and catch the full breakdown below!

Let’s get into it.

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Sponsored by:

Secure Every App. Tackle Agent Sprawl.

The identity perimeter is expanding fast. As AI agents, low code apps, and integrations multiply across Microsoft Entra ID, your attack surface grows with them. Most organizations do not see how much risk is created by Power Platform workflows, Copilot Studio agents, and shadow applications until it’s too late.

Join our live session, “Integrating Application Security into Your Zero Trust Framework: Practical Examples” on Dec 3rd at 1 PM EST. You’ll learn how to bring applications and agents under Zero Trust with practical, real-world guidance on:

• Governing non-human identities

• Reducing agent sprawl

• Adopting DevSecOps practices that keep your environment resilient and secure

• Microsoft Ignite updates around Entra, agents, and security

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⚡️ Microsoft

🔥 Public Preview

• Microsoft Entra: What’s New in Secure Access on the AI Frontier • Joy Chik

📖 Read

• Agents built into your workflow: Get Security Copilot with Microsoft 365 E5 • Dorothy Li

• Microsoft named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management for the ninth consecutive year • Joy Chik

📺 Watch

• 📺 Introducing Microsoft Agent 365 – The control plane for agents (1 min)

• 📺 Secure access for AI agents with Microsoft Entra | BRK265 (41 min) • Alex Simons, Sharon Sandhu, Ehud Itshaki

• 📺 Microsoft Entra Suite: Accelerate Zero Trust and Secure AI Access • Igor Sakhnov, Kaitlin Murphy, Carmichael Patton

• 📺 Synced Passkeys in Microsoft Entra for Phishing-resistant MFA (8 min) • Jarred Boone

• 📺 Replace your VPN - Global Secure Access in Microsoft Entra (10 min) • Ashish Jain

🗣️ Message Center

• MC1187672 - Get ready for security agents: Microsoft Security Copilot will be included in Microsoft 365 E5

• MC1188230 - Microsoft Entra ID: Retirement of duplicative properties in passkey (FIDO2) authentication methods policy

• MC1188595 - App-only certificate-based authentication now available in SharePoint Online Management Shell

• MC1173195 - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Graph APIs for agent and app management

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From the community…

🚀 Most popular posts from last week

• 🥇Remove password and go full passwordless • Jan Mulder

• 🥈New Entra Account Recovery Feature With Identity Verification • Daniel Bradley

• 🥉Free tool to manage directory settings in Entra ID - Blog • Vasil Michev

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Sponsored by:

“This Product Has Been a Miracle for Our Helpdesk”

EasyEntra sets a new bar for Microsoft 365 and Hybrid AD first-line support teams:

✅ Consolidated – Manage all user settings from a single pane of glass.
✅ Intuitive – Mimics the familiar AD Users & Computers layout.
✅ Responsive – Preloads all settings for lightning-fast navigation.
✅ Secure – Uses standard authentication, no highly privileged service accounts.
✅ Instant – Install and configure in minutes, see productivity gains on day one.

“It feels almost like a revolution” – Arjeplog Municipality, SE | “This is the best software ever” – Core Healthcare, US | “This tool has been invaluable in streamlining our IT processes” – Southwest Network, US | “One of the best products I’ve used” – Mirick Law, US | “EasyEntra has transformed our daily IT operations” – Animal Protection, DK

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☀️ Learn

👩‍✈️ AI & Copilot

• What is Microsoft Entra Agent ID? • Daniel Bradley

• Microsoft Introduces MCP Server for Enterprise • Ramya

• The Unseen Variable: Identity, Agentic AI and the Path of Least Resistance • Graham Gold

• New Microsoft Entra Agent ID to Secure and Manage AI Agents • Karthi

• Secure AI Access with Microsoft Entra Internet Access • Kanaga

• 📺 Secure Your AI Agents with Microsoft Entra Agent ID (6 min) • Rio Hindle

• 📺 Security Copilot Now Included with Microsoft 365 E5 (10 min) • Rio Hindle

🧰 Workload ID

• When Community ideas become features: Reflections on a recent Entra ID change – UI for Application Management Policies – finally! • Michael Morten Sonne

🔑 Authentication

• Enabling and Using Synced Passkeys in Entra ID • Gabriel Delaney

👥 User & Group Management

• Breaking the Habit: Moving Privileged Accounts Out of AD. How to Transfer User SOA to Entra ID? • Shehan Perera

• New administration roles for Copilot and agents • Benoit Hamet

🤖 DevOps & PowerShell

• PowerShell is fun :)Using the EntraExporter PowerShell module • Harm Veenstra

• Practical Graph: Creating a Service Principal Analysis for a Microsoft 365 Tenant • Tony Redmond

• Removing Inactive Entra ID User Accounts with PowerShell • Tony Redmond

• How to Create an Agent Identity Blueprint With Graph Powershell • Daniel Bradley

• How to Create an Agent Identity with Microsoft Graph PowerShell • Daniel Bradley

🚦 Conditional Access

• Diving into geo filter with Entra Conditional Access – Part 3 • Per-Torben Sørensen

🖥️ Devices

• KB- Windows 11 Advanced passkey settings • Jan Bakker

• 📺 AVD Managed Identities: What Every Admin Needs to Know! (14 min) • Travis Roberts

🥷 Security

• Managing Privileged Roles in Microsoft Entra ID: A… • Mike Owens, Phil Rowland, Brandon Colley and Jason Crawford

• 📺 Microsoft Entra ID INSECURE DEFAULTS (17 min) • John Hammond

• 📺 Top Essentials for an Integrated, AI-Ready Security Foundation​ | BRK242 (43 min) • Microsoft Events

📒 Tenant Configuration

• New Baseline Security Mode for Microsoft 365 • Rudy Mens

• New Baseline Security Mode in Microsoft 365 Admin Center • Blesslin Rinu

• Plus Address emails for Entra ID admin accounts • Rakhesh Sasidharan

• 📺 Deploying, Configuring, and Exploring Entra Domain Services & Windows Se... (11 min) • Orin Thomas

🛍️ External ID - Customers

• Entra – You can now have a custom branding for each registered application for external identities (preview) • Benoit Hamet

• Entra ID – You can now use a username instead of email for external identities (preview) • Benoit Hamet

• Using PowerShell 7 with Entra External ID (EEID) • Rory Braybrook

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🔥 Maester

• Entra ID Four Musketeers • Mateusz Jendza

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