👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.
The long-awaited Platform SSO during Automated Device Enrollment (ADE) for macOS is officially generally available! You can now complete device registration right inside the macOS Setup Assistant before a user ever hits the desktop. In other massive news, Microsoft Entra was named a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Workforce Identity Security Platforms (Q2 2026) securing the highest scores across both the Current Offering and Strategy categories.
Also in this issue: tune into the latest Entra.Chat episode with Jeff Staiman to learn how Microsoft’s own battle with Midnight Blizzard shaped the new Tenant Governance control plane. And if you’re a GSA customer, don’t miss the newly published GSA Ops Guide.
The New Control Plane for Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance
Microsoft had 7 million internal tenants and almost lost control of their environment and your org might be facing the same problem at a smaller scale. In this episode, we sit down with Jeff Staiman, PM Area Lead for Tenant Governance at Microsoft, to break down the feature born from the Midnight Blizzard attack. We cover discovery, drift detection, gov…
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🏆 General Availability
Platform SSO during automated device enrollment is now generally available for macOS • Justin Ploegert
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Microsoft recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Workforce Identity Security Platforms • Nadim Abdo
How Storm-2949 turned a compromised identity into a cloud-wide breach • Microsoft Defender Security Research Team
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From the community…
👩✈️ AI & Copilot
Step-by-Step guide to Microsoft Entra Agent ID • Dishan M. Francis
Natural Language Queries Against Entra ID • Klaus Bierschenk
How to Block Access for High-Risk AI Agents • Ali Tajran
💳 Verified ID
Announcement: Terraform Provider for Entra Verified ID • Mateusz Jendza
👮♂️ ID Governance
Microsoft Entra PIM Secure Admin Access • Mark Oldham
Password Delivery Is the Last Manual Step in Onboarding • Sandra Saluti
🛠️ Introducing the New PIMActivation Portal: Managed, Self-Hosted, and Mobile Ready • Sebastian Flaeng Markdanner
Authentication
Identity Is Everything. • Jon Hope
🛠️ SAML & OIDC testing for Microsoft Entra ID • Gabe Corsini
👥 User & Group Management
Microsoft Purview Workload Content roles in Entra & new PIM alerts • Ewelina Paczkowska
🖥️ Devices
Platform SSO during automated device enrollment is now generally available for macOS • Justin Ploegert
🥷 Security
🛠️ Release Monkey365 v0.98 · silverhack/monkey365 • Juan Garrido
Different Ways to Restrict User Access to Entra Portal • Adi
📒 Tenant Configuration
Building Custom Sign-In Portals with Custom Branding Themes in Entra • Colby Prior
📺 Entra ID Has Been Unprotected for 16 Years! • Azure Academy
🛍️ External ID - Customers
Domainless SAML federation in Microsoft Entra External ID • Jan Bakker
Enabling user attributes, e.g. “email” in the JWT in Entra External ID (EEID) • Rory Braybrook
Using the High Scale Compatibility (HSC) mode in Entra External ID (EEID) for enabling Azure AD B2C… • Rory Braybrook
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