👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here! We are back with this week’s global roundup of Microsoft Entra news 🌍.
We hope you’re all enjoying a well-earned holiday break, but the Entra community is still chugging along! 💪 We have some awesome new toolkits and blog posts to share.
Plus, don’t miss this week’s podcast on Entra Global Secure Access with Keren (Entra GSA team) and fellow architect, Thomas, from the Entra CxE Architecture team.
Identity-Centric Network Security: Entra Global Secure Access Architecture & Benefits
Is the traditional VPN dead? In the latest episode of Entra Chat, we dive deep Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access (GSA).
Enjoy!
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From the community…
🚀 Most popular posts from last week
🥇Stop struggling, start managing: building PIM Manager • Joël Prins
🥈Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems • William Brown
🥉Microsoft Baseline Security Mode Rolls Out • Tony Redmond
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☀️ Learn
🧰 Workload ID
👮♂️ ID Governance
Admin Account Lifecycle Management – Part 1: Automated Provisioning with Entra ID Governance • Christian Frohn
🌐 Private Access & Internet Access (GSA)
Source IP Anchoring with Entra Global Secure Access • Brian Veldman
Using Global Secure Access in Cross-Tenant scenarios • Chris Brumm
🔑 Authentication
👥 User & Group Management
Microsoft adds new Microsoft 365 Support Engineer role to Entra • Daniel Bradley
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK V2.34 Makes WAM the Default • Tony Redmond
Microsoft Resolves WAM Issues for Microsoft Graph PowerShell • Daniel Bradley
🔐 Credential Management
🖥️ Devices
📺 FINALLY! Stop the “Allow my organization to manage my device” Prompt! (8 min) • Azure Brother
🥷 Security
📺 Breaking Entra: Real-World Cloud Identity Attacks You Can Recreate - BSidesFrankfurt (32 min) • Tomer Nahum, Jonathan Elkabas
📒 Tenant Configuration
Can I restore deleted Entra objects? Yes? No? Maybe? • Klaus Bierschenk
📺 Entra ID Explained in 8 Simple Points (Formerly Azure AD) (2 min) • Cyber Christy
🛠️ Toolkit
Partner Centre Admin MFA Assessment: A Comprehensive PowerShell Compliance Tool • JJ Milner
Subscription ID to tenant information: building sub2tenant.com • Olav Helland
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