Entra 🆔 News #132 → This week in Microsoft Entra
Learn about GA of Source of Authority conversion of synced on-prem AD users to cloud users 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 brings new GA announcements from the Entra team, along with a strong lineup of insightful community posts.
And don’t forget to tune into this week’s Entra Chat podcast, where Padma Parthasarathy joins us to talk all things Entra Agent Registry and Entra Agent ID.
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🏆 General Availability
Ability to convert Source of Authority of synced on-prem AD users to cloud users is now available
Microsoft Entra Private Access for Active Directory domain controllers
Microsoft Entra PowerShell v1.2.0 Update • Givinalis Omachar
📺 Watch
Microsoft MCP Server for Enterprise: Transforming User, Security & Identity Tasks with AI (57 min) • Luca Spolidoro, Mamta Kumar
Purview Data Security and Entra Global Secure Access Deep Dive (44 min) • Brendon Lee, Mahantesh Hurkadli, Liz Cox
From the community…
🚀 Most popular posts from last week
🥇Passkeys and the Personal Phone Problem – An MFA Update for 2026 • Michael Mardahl
🥈Configuring Time-based Conditional Access Policies • Daniel Bradley
🥉Entra IGA for dummies - Part 1 of 5 • Rojan Koc
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☀️ Learn
🧰 Workload ID
The Future of Secure Access with Managed Identities and Workload Identity Federation • Brian Veldman
👮♂️ ID Governance
Entra ID – PIM for Groups – Automating PIM Group Activation in Entra ID with PowerShell • Michael Morten Sonne
Teams External Collaboration Administrator Role Arrives • Tony Redmond
📦 Apps
🔑 Authentication
How to Enable Synced Passkeys in Microsoft Entra Id • Rudy Mens
Securing Biometric Authentication: Why Fingerprints and Facial Data Can’t Be Hijacked • Anders Ahl
📺 Entra ID Synced Passkeys First Look! (15 min) • Andy Malone
📺 LOCKED OUT?! The MFA Paradox & How to Login When Azure MFA is DOWN (9 min) • Azure Brother
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
Graph API Beginner Deep Dive. TL;DR • Jon Hope
Practical Graph: Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK Cmdlets and Graph Throttling • Tony Redmond
Some Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK Cmdlets Lose Body Parameters • Tony Redmond
The Deep-Dive Guide: Microsoft Graph API for PowerShell • Drago Petrovic
🚦 Conditional Access
Allow One, Allow All: When Conditional Access Loses the Plot • Graham Gold
Conditional Access policies and Custom Security Attributes – Match made in heaven or false security? • Frank van Zandwijk
It’s 10 p.m. - Do you know what your Conditional Access policies are doing? • Kåre Overgård
📺 Entra ID - Restore Deleted Conditional Access Policies (5 min) • Julian Rasmussen
🔐 Credential Management
Debunking the Myth: Passkeys Are Hard to Implement • Dr. Emin Huseynov
From Ticket To Self‑Service: SSPR To The Rescue • Michele Blum
🖥️ Devices
Access Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PC from non-managed devices • Jan Bakker
Entra Join Shows No Password Prompt: The User Realm Issue • Rudy Ooms
📺 Get Ready for Seamless Access: Explore FIDO2 Passkey on Windows 365 Link! (11 min) • Travis Roberts
🥷 Security
AiTM Phishing with Azure Functions • Nicola Suter
ConsentFix: Securing Your Tenant Against OAuth Authorisation Code Theft • Toby G
Start working with Security Baseline Mode: Don´t be scared! • Torbjorn Granheden
🛍️ External ID - Customers
🛠️ Toolkit
How to Enumerate Microsoft 365 Tenant Domains in 2026 • Daniel Bradley
🔥 Maester
Did you hear that maester supports Intune? • Nicola Suter
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