Entra 🆔 News #135 → This week in Microsoft Entra
Learn about source of authority for users going GA, deactivating multi-tenant apps, tenant config as code and more!
👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.
It’s a big one this week packed with GA releases, previews, and community deep dives across governance, security, conditional access, and tenant configuration. If you’re building or running Entra at scale, there’s a lot here that’s immediately useful.
Don’t forget to queue up this week’s podcast for your weekly listen. Nik shared everything there is to know about the new tenant config / snapshot feature.
Enjoy!
⚡️ Microsoft
🏆 General Availability
Ability to convert Source of Authority of synced on-prem AD users to cloud users is now available • Microsoft Learn
Service Principal creation audit logs for alerting & monitoring • Microsoft Learn
Entra Private Access for Domain Controllers • Microsoft Learn
Improved enforcement for All resources policies with resource exclusions • Microsoft Learn
Entra ID Governance guest billing meter enforcement • Microsoft Learn
Client Credentials in Microsoft Entra External ID • Microsoft Learn
App-based branding via Branding themes in Entra External ID • Microsoft Learn
Session Control Conditional Access Policies in Entra External ID • Microsoft Learn
🔥 Public Preview
Deactivate an app registration • Microsoft Learn
From the community…
🚀 Most popular posts from last week
🥇My Entra MFA Confession: The Setting I Missed for 3 Years • Craig Camacho
🥈Azure / Entra ID Emergency Kit • Rory Braybrook
🥉Always On VPN vs. Entra Private Access: Choosing the Right Access Model for Your Organization • Richard M. Hicks
👮♂️ ID Governance
Catalog access reviews in Entra ID Governance • Vasil Michev
Microsoft Introduces New Cloud Licensing APIs for M365 • Daniel Bradley
🌐 Private Access & Internet Access (GSA)
Intelligent Local Access in Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access • Oliver Müller
Secure macOS Intune Deployment with Defender and Global Secure Access • Niklas Tinner
📦 Apps
Deactivating Entra ID Applications with Microsoft Graph • Moe Kinani
Entra – You can now disable registered applications (preview) • Benoit Hamet
How to Temporarily Disable Sign-ins for Entra Applications • Sruthy
📺 How to Deploy Apps in Microsoft 365 Step by Step Guide (28 min) • Andy Malone MVP
🔑 Authentication
Stop Skipping MFA for Office IPs to Prevent Phishing Attacks • Jay Kerai
Windows Hello for Business Not Defaulting to PIN or Biometrics in Hybrid Entra ID – Root Cause and Fix • Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai
📺 Microsoft Just Killed Passwords Forever! Synced Passkeys in Entra ID (10 min) • Andy Malone MVP
📺 Upgrade Your MFA: How to Enable Location Maps & App Names • Azure Brother
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
📺 Latest updates on the Microsoft 365 Developer program (12 min) • Eeti Agarwal
🚦 Conditional Access
Exploring Conditional Access Bypasses in Microsoft Entra ID • Driek Desmet
The Perimeter to a Secure Cloud Starts with Conditional Access • Jon Hope
Conditional Access for Data: How Labels, Encryption, and DLP Should Mirror Identity Protection • Mbulelo (MB) Nyosi
🔐 Credential Management
Zero trust in practice: A deep technical dive into going fully passwordless in hybrid enterprise environments • Sameer Bhanushali
🖥️ Devices
Configuring Entra ID Cloud Kerberos for macOS • Chris Greenacre
Microsoft Disables NTLM by Default in Upcoming Windows Releases • Lokesh
Windows hello for business multi factor unlock • Nicklas Ahlberg
🥷 Security
Keys to JWT Assessments - From a Cheat Sheet to a Deep Dive • Aaron James
M365 Compromised Account Triage: OAuth Persistence • Wesley Lombardo
Microsoft Baseline Security Mode • James Agombar
The hidden risk of using aka.ms shortURLs for Microsoft portals • Jan Bakker
Turning invisible authentication into actionable security signals and Uncover Hidden Threats in Entra ID • David Alonso Dominguez
♻️ Sync
Entra Connect Sync 2.6.1 released - Icewolf Blog • Andres Bohren
Entra connect update failed due to modified miisserver.config • Martin Rublik
Entra ID – New Entra Connect version is available for download • Benoit Hamet
📒 Tenant Configuration
Add some BAESL to your M365 Sandbox! • Colby Pryor
Microsoft Unified Tenant Configuration Management • Tony Redmond
📺 Recover quickly for business continuity with Microsoft 365 Backup (4 min) • Microsoft 365
🎙️ Podcasts
328 - A lap around Unified Tenant Configuration Management APIs • Jussi Roine & Tobias Zimmergren
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