Entra 🆔 News #146 → This week in Microsoft Entra
Learn about the GA of License Usage insights, tenant governance APIs and more
👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.
There’s a little bit of everything this week from GSA to Account Recovery and everything in between.
Don’t forget to check out this week’s Entra Chat with Sandra Saluti who shared quite a few ID Governance gems and best practices and some lively discussions on LinkedIn and X on the topic.
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🏆 General Availability
Now generally available: License usage insights in Microsoft Entra • Joseph Dadzie
Tenant Configuration Management APIs are now generally available • Aditya Mukund
📖 Read
Get ahead of agent sprawl: manage and govern AI agents at scale • Ngozi Nwoko
Microsoft’s perspective on agentic identity standards • Pamela Dingle
AI-powered defense for an AI-accelerated threat landscape • Ales Holecek
🗣️ Message Center
MC1279092 - Microsoft Entra: Passkeys in registration campaigns update (updated 23 April)
MC1198077 - Microsoft Entra: Cross-tenant security group synchronization
From the community…
🚀 Most popular posts from last week
🥇Any user can disable passkeys in Windows. Completely. No admin rights needed. • Dr. Emin Huseynov
🥈Who Created That Service Principal? Tracing It Back with Microsoft Graph • Shannon Kuehn
🥉Prevent disabling passkeys on Windows • Dániel Kovács
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☀️ Learn
👩✈️ AI & Copilot
Getting Started with Security Copilot (42 min) • Microsoft Security Community
Entra Agent ID → Federated Identity Credentials (FIC) deep-dive • Derk van der Woude
Microsoft Entra Agent ID: How Identity Works for AI Agents • Carlos Suarez
🧰 Workload ID
Secure, Keyless Application Access with Managed Identities - Now GA in Azure Files SMB • Priyanka-Gangal
Your service principals probably don’t need secrets • Jan Bakker
👮♂️ ID Governance
Account Discovery in Microsoft Entra ID Governance • Blesslin Rinu
Admin Account Lifecycle Management – Part 3: Offboarding admin accounts • Christian Frohn
🌐 Private Access & Internet Access (GSA)
Token Replay Protection and the Compliant Network Check • Chris Brumm
📦 Apps
Authentication
Conditional Access Foundations: The Bottom of the Stack (And Why It Matters Most) • Jon Hope
Don’t Burn the Steak: Entra Passkeys, Shared PCs, and Phishing-Resistant Access • Dustin Gullett
Enterprise Passkey Deployment Challenges & Solutions • Vincent Delitz
Passkeys in Windows Hello, Security AND Convenience! • Per-Torben Sørensen
Troubleshooting Common Microsoft Authenticator Issues • Kanaga
🎙️ Ep. 1 - Passkeys, Pitfalls & Tenants Gone Wild: Your Entratainment Begins! • Eric Woodruff, Thomas Naunheim, Ru Campbell, Nathan McNulty, Michael Van Horenbeeck
👥 User & Group Management
New AI Reader Role Added to Microsoft Entra • Daniel Bradley
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
Awards, certifications and working with the /profile Graph API endpoint • Vasil Michev
The Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK and the additionalProperties Property • Tony Redmond
📺 Application Insights - Securing with Entra ID (34 min) • Alexander Schmidt
🚦 Conditional Access
📺 Your Conditional Access is Outdated. Here is the 2026 Blueprint (9 min) • Azure Brother
🔐 Credential Management
🖥️ Devices
Device-Preferred Credential in Entra ID • Andrea Fisher
📈 Reporting and Insights
🛠️ EntraReporter: Getting a complete picture of Entra ID role assignments • Kåre Overgård
🥷 Security
Agent ID Administrator scope overreach: Service Principal takeover in Entra ID - Silverfort • Noa Ariel
♻️ Sync
Getting started with Entra Connect Cloud Sync alert rules! • Pim Jacobs
📺 The Hidden Identity Tool That Microsoft Doesn’t want you to Know About! (17 min) • Andy Malone
📒 Tenant Configuration
Entra and Microsoft 365 Could Improve License Reporting • Tony Redmond
Microsoft 365 License Management with Entra ID Governance (No Code Approach) • Sandra Saluti
Microsoft 365 Quarterly Uptime Number Sinks to New Low • Tony Redmond
Reporting an Entra ID browser error that requires troubleshooting • Rory Braybrook
📺 3 Reasons to Use Entra ID P2 (10 min) • Jonathan Edwards
🛍️ External ID - Customers
Entra External ID Native Auth: Two Years Later & MFA via Conditional Access. Part 2 • Mateusz Jendza
Remove sign-up from Entra External ID user flows • Damien Bowden
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