Entra 🆔 News #142 → This week in Microsoft Entra
Learn about Tenant Governance, Entra Backup and Recovery, CA Agent updates and more...
👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.
The big news this week is the official launch of Entra Backup and Recovery and Entra Tenant Governance, along with new updates to the CA Optimization Agent.
There’s an upcoming change that may impact applications using Microsoft Graph app-only permissions. Check out the blog post “Designing for Eventual Consistency” for more details.
Don’t forget to catch up on this week’s Entra Chat podcast with Emilien Socchi, where we dig into two of his interesting projects.
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🏆 General Availability
External MFA in Microsoft Entra ID is now Generally Available • Swaroop Krishnamurthy
🔥 Public Preview
Strengthen Identity Resilience: Recover with Confidence using Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery • Joseph Dadzie
Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance: Secure and Manage Multi-Tenant Environments at Scale • Joseph Dadzie
Evolving Identity Security: How the Conditional Access Optimization Agent Helps You Adapt • Swaroop Krishnamurthy
📖 Read
Designing for Eventual Consistency for Microsoft Entra • Kyle Marsh
Identity security is the new pressure point for modern cyberattacks • Rob Lefferts, Nadim Abdo
🗣️ Message Center
MC1262589 - New M365 group creation and editing in My Groups
MC1261596 - Notice: Security Copilot will be included as part of your Microsoft 365 E5 plan soon
MC1248389 - Retirement of -Credential parameter when connecting to Exchange Online PowerShell
From the community…
🚀 Most popular posts from last week
🥇Microsoft Quietly Closes Another Loophole for Tenant Domain Enumeration • Daniel Bradley
🥈The Sad State of Microsoft Graph and Other APIs • Tony Redmond
🥉Conditional Access Optimization Agent knowledge base • Jan Bakker
☀️ Learn
👩✈️ AI & Copilot
From Blueprint to Token: How Entra Agent Identity Inheritance Really Works • Derk van der Woude
Microsoft 365 E7: The Frontier Suite and the Rise of AI Agents • Konstantin Slavin-Borovskij
Microsoft Entra Agent ID: A Practical Guide to Blueprints and Agent Identities • Raymond Roethof
💳 Verified ID
Build secure verification with Microsoft Entra Verified ID (14 min) • Yoel Horvitz
⛑️ ID Protection
Don’t let Entra ID Protection miss your next breach! • Nicola Suter
📺 Sign-In Risk vs User Risk - Most Admins Don’t Know the Difference (14 min) • Jonathan Edwards
📦 Apps
Common Entra ID Security Assessment Findings – Part 1: Foreign Enterprise Applications With Privileged API Permissions • Christian Feuchter
Authentication
🛠️ Entra Auth Tracer – A Browser Extension for Deep Inspection of Microsoft Entra Authentication Flows • Darren Robinson
The Exchange attribute SOA switch and licencing woes • Morten Skrubbeltrang
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
Authentication Tokens Are Not a Data Contract - Azure DevOps Blog • Angel Wong
Bulk Convert External Users to Internal Users Using PowerShell • Kanaga
How to Automate Inactive Guest User Removal in Microsoft 365 Using Power Automate • Dhinesh
Microsoft Limits App Access to Sensitive Message Properties • Tony Redmond
🚦 Conditional Access
Block Microsoft 365 Apps using Conditional Access Policy • Prajwal Desai
🖥️ Devices
KB5085516 OOB Update Resolves Microsoft account sign in Issues • Prajwal Desai
📺 Passwordless Windows for BYOD: Entra ID Passkeys Explained (9 min) • Azure Brother
🏙️ External ID - Guests & Multi-Tenant Organizations
B2B or Not 2B? Cross-Tenant Delegated Administration with Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance • Thomas Naunheim
🥷 Security
♻️ Sync
Getting started with Entra Connect Cloud Sync • Pim Jacobs
📒 Tenant Configuration
Low-Key Debut for Entra ID Backup and Recovery • Tony Redmond
Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery • Rudy Mens
Microsoft Entra ID Gets Native Backup and Recovery — What You Need to Know • Jon Hope
Tenant governance | Entra ID • Michael Frank
🎙️ Unified Tenant Management with Nik Charlebois-Laprade • Nik Charlebois, Richard Campbell
📺 Overview of Entra Backup and Recovery (11 min) • John Savill
🛍️ External ID - Customers
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